The Resource Once & future giants : what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals, Sharon Levy, (electronic resource)
Once & future giants : what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals, Sharon Levy, (electronic resource)
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The item Once & future giants : what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals, Sharon Levy, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Massey University Library, University of New Zealand.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages)
- Contents
-
- Elegy for the mastodon
- Mammoth tracks
- Giants down under
- Wild dreams
- Wild realities
- The big heat
- Dead beasts walking
- Isbn
- 9780199708420
- Label
- Once & future giants : what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals
- Title
- Once & future giants
- Title remainder
- what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals
- Statement of responsibility
- Sharon Levy
- Title variation
- Once and future giants
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Levy, Sharon
- Dewey number
- 576.8/4
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Extinction (Biology)
- Paleontology
- Wildlife conservation
- Label
- Once & future giants : what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals, Sharon Levy, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
- Elegy for the mastodon -- Mammoth tracks -- Giants down under -- Wild dreams -- Wild realities -- The big heat -- Dead beasts walking
- Control code
- ocn704541791
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780199708420
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Note
- eBooks on EBSCOhost
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)704541791
- Label
- Once & future giants : what Ice Age extinctions tell us about the fate of Earth's largest animals, Sharon Levy, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
- Elegy for the mastodon -- Mammoth tracks -- Giants down under -- Wild dreams -- Wild realities -- The big heat -- Dead beasts walking
- Control code
- ocn704541791
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780199708420
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Note
- eBooks on EBSCOhost
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)704541791
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