Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world /

Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world /

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Author / Creator:	Berger, Joel, author.
Imprint:	Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. ©2018 �2018
Description:	xxi, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Climatic changes. Climatic changes. Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11710115

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Varying Form of Title:	Life at the edges of the world
ISBN:	9780226366265 022636626X 9780226366432
Provenance:	Binding: includes dust jacket.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns here to shift, and with the snows, the entire ecosystem. Food and water are vaporizing in this warming environment, and these beasts of ice and thin air are extraordinarily ill-equipped for the change. A journey into some of the most forbidding landscapes on earth, [this book] is an eye-opening, steely look at what it takes for animals like these to live at the edges of existence. But more than this, it is a revealing exploration of how climate change and people are affecting even the most far-flung niches of our planet." -- From Amazon.com summary.
Standard no.:	40028385180

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Call Number:	GF75.B474 2018
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