Extinct Madagascar : picturing the island's past /
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| Author / Creator: | Goodman, Steven M., author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11276534 |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Madagascar in perspective: past and present. Introduction
- Geological time, dates, and radiocarbon dating
- An overview of the origins, geology, animal colonizatin, and modern habitats of Madagascar
- A brief history of climatic change on Madagascar since the late Pleistocene
- History of human colonization of Madagascar
- Human interactions with now-extinct land vertebrates
- Hypotheses on what caused the extinctions during the Holocene
- Extinction, conservation, and the future
- pt. 2. Case studies.