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Once & future giants
Title statement Once & future giants : what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals / Sharon Levy Additional Variant Titles Once and future giants Personal name Levy, Sharon, 1957- (author) Publication Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 Phys.des. 1 online zdroj (xvi, 255 stran) : ilustrace, mapy ISBN 9780199708420 (online ; pdf) 0199708428 Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík Contents Elegy for the mastodon -- Mammoth tracks -- Giants down under -- Wild dreams -- Wild realities -- The big heat -- Dead beasts walking. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Note Způsob přístupu: World Wide Web Defekty eBooks on EBSCOhost Subj. Headings vymírání druhů extinction (biology) * evoluce (biologie) evolution (biology) * pleistocén pleistocene Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Conspect 57 - Obecná biologie UDC 575.8 , 551.791 , 57.071.74 , (0.034.2:08) Country Velká Británie ; Spojené státy americké Language angličtina Document kind Electronic sources URL http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=357186 book
"Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ('megafauna') extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history--and our part in it--is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face an intensified replay of that great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history. Inspired by a passion for the lost Pleistocene giants, some scientists advocate bringing elephants and cheetahs to the Great Plains as stand-ins for their extinct native brethren. By reintroducing big browsers and carnivores to North America, they argue, we could rescue some of the planet's most endangered animals while restoring healthy prairie ecosystems. Critics, including biologists enmeshed in the struggle to restore native species like the gray wolf and the bison, see the proposal as a dangerous distraction from more realistic and legitimate conservation efforts. Deftly navigating competing theories and emerging evidence, Once and Future Giants examines the extent of human influence on megafauna extinctions past and present, and explores innovative conservation efforts around the globe. The key to modern-day conservation, Levy suggests, may lie fossilized right under our feet"--Provided by publisher.
Elegy for the mastodon -- Mammoth tracks -- Giants down under -- Wild dreams -- Wild realities -- The big heat -- Dead beasts walking.
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