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Informationen zum Autor Dr Chris Johnson is a Reader in the School of Tropical Biology at James Cook University Klappentext This book introduces readers to the great mammal extinction debate in Australia. Zusammenfassung Australia has the worst record of mammal extinctions in the world! with over 65 mammal species having vanished in the last 50 000 years. This book introduces readers to the great mammal extinction debate! taking us on a detective-like tour of these extinctions! uncovering how! why and when they occurred. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments; Glossary; 1. Introduction - a brief history of Australian mammals; Part I. Mammals and People in Ice-Age Australia - 2.6 Million to 10,000 Years Ago: 2. The Pleistocene Megafauna; 3. What caused the Megafauna extinctions? 150 years of debate; 4. Two dating problems - human arrival and Megafauna extinction; 5. The changing environment of Late Pleistocene Australia; 6. Testing hypotheses on Megafauna extinction; 7. The aftermath: ecology consequences of Megafauna extinction; Part II. The Late Pre-Historic Period - 10,000 to 200 Years Ago; 8. Environmental change and human history in aboriginal Australia; 9. Dingoes, people, and other mammals in Holocene Australia; Part III. Europeans and Their New Mammals - The Last 200 Years; 10. Mammal extinction in European Australia; 11. What caused the recent extinctions?; 12 Interaction: rabbits, sheep and dingoes; 13. Conclusions - the history in review.
