The song of the dodo : island biogeography in an age of extinctions / David Quammen ; maps by Kris Ellingsen.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Pimlico, 1997Copyright date: ©1996Description: 702 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0712673334
- 9780712673334
- Island biogeography in an age of extinctions
- 577.52 23
- QH541.5.I8 Q35 1997
- BP Natural World Book Award, 1996
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576 ALC The microbiology coloring book / | 576.5 KLU Essentials of genetics. | 576.58 GLU Mismatch : why our world no longer fits our bodies / | 577.52 QUA The song of the dodo : island biogeography in an age of extinctions / | 578.77 OCE Oceans : a source of life. | 579 TOR Microbiology : an introduction / | 579 TOR Microbiology : an introduction / |
First published in the United Kingdom by Hutchinson 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 648-671) and index.
Thirty-six Persian throw rugs -- The man who knew islands -- So huge a bignes -- Rarity unto death -- Preston's bell -- The coming thing -- The hedgehog of the Amazon -- The song of the Indri -- World in pieces -- Message from Aru.
"Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery."--Publisher's website.
BP Natural World Book Award, 1996
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