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Author:   Samuel T. Turvey (Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.961kg
ISBN:  

9780199535095

ISBN 10:   0199535094
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   28 May 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Anson W. Mackay: An Introduction to Late Glacial - Holocene Environments 2: Samuel T. Turvey: In the Shadow of the Megafauna: Prehistoric Mammal and Bird Extinctions across the Holocene 3: Samuel T. Turvey: Holocene Mammal Extinctions 4: Tommy Tyrberg: Holocene Avian Extinctions 5: Wendell R. Haag: Past and Future Patterns of Freshwater Mussel Extinctions in North America during the Holocene 6: Nicholas K. Dulvy, John K. Pinnegar & John D. Reynolds: Holocene Extinctions in the Sea 7: R. Paul Scofield: Procellariform Extinctions in the Holocene: Threat Processes and Wider Ecosystem-Scale Implications 8: Robert R. Dunn: Coextinction: Anecdotes, Models and Speculation 9: Ben Collen & Samuel T. Turvey: Probabilistic Methods for Determining Extinction Chronologies 10: Samuel T. Turvey & Joanne H. Cooper: The Past is Another Country: Is Evidence for Prehistoric, Historical and Present-Day Extinction Really Comparable? 11: Rob Marchant, Simon Brewer, Thompson Webb III & Samuel T. Turvey: Holocene Deforestation: A History of Human-Environmental Interactions, Climate Change and Extinction 12: Julie L. Lockwood, Tim M. Blackburn, Phillip Cassey & Julian D. Olden: The Shape of Things to Come: Non-Native Mammalian Predators and the Fate of Island Bird Diversity 13: J. R. Stewart: The Quaternary Fossil Record as a Source of Data for Evidence-Based Conservation: Is the Past the Key to the Future? 14: Arne Ø. Mooers, Simon J. Goring, Samuel T. Turvey & Tyler S. Kuhn: Holocene Extinctions and the Loss of Feature Diversity References

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<br>Holocene Extinctions is a superb book on both empirical and conceptual levels, one that will surely lead to future analyses of these extinctions in new and important directions. This book is the first to provide a general survey and analysis of these more recent losses [of the Holocene period]. It is, at the same time, a valuable and enduring contribution to historic biogeography and conservation biology. --Integrative and Comparative Biology<br>

Author Information

Samuel Turvey is Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology, a department of the Zoological Society of London. He is a conservation biologist with a principal interest in the history and prehistory of human-caused extinctions and in developing conservation strategies for today's threatened species. He was deeply involved with the conservation efforts surrounding the Yangtze River dolphin, and was the lead author of the 2007 paper in Biology Letters which declared that it was probably extinct, generating tremendous international media attention. He has published numerous other academic papers in a range of scientific journals, including Nature.

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