How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature

Name: How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature
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ISBN: 9780300122701

ISBN-10: 0300122705

ISBN-13: 9780300122701

Edition: 2007

Authors: H. H. Shugart

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Although people have been altering earth's landscapes to some extent for tens of thousands of years, humankind today is causing massive changes to the planet. Such widespread environmental change is accompanied by accelerating rates of species extinction. In this book, noted ecologist H. H. Shugart presents important ecological concepts through entertaining animal parables. He tells the stories of particular birds and mammals--the packrat, ivory-billed woodpecker, penguin, dingo, European rabbit, and others--and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations. Change is the root of many planetary problems,…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English