Australia's mammal extinctions: a 50 000 year history
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2006
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Umfang: | IX, 278 S., [10] Bl. Ill., Kt., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0521849187 9780521849180 0521686601 9780521686600 |
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Mammal
Extinctions
A 50 000 year history
ChrisJohnson
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
1 A brief history of Australia s mammals 1
Oolacunta 1
The extinction problem 2
Origins and evolution 3
Part I MAMMALS AND PEOPLE IN ICE-AGE AUSTRALIA
2 The Pleistocene megafauna 16
Australia s Pleistocene bestiary 16
Some problems and controversies 30
Size and destiny 33
3 What caused the megafauna extinctions? 36
Early ideas 1860-1968 36
The modern debate 38
Overview 50
Complex hypotheses 51
Explaining extinction 53
4 Two dating problems: human arrival and megafauna
extinction 55
Fixing dates on the past 55
The beginning of Australian prehistory 57
The end of the megafauna 62
5 The changing environment of the Pleistocene 76
Ice age climates 76
Vegetation and climate change 81
People, fire and vegetation 90
The last glacial cycle in perspective 94
6 Testing hypotheses on megafauna extinction 96
Timing of extinctions 96
The living and the dead 98
The power of late Pleistocene hunters 106
7 The ecological aftermath 115
Photographs of ghosts 116
Plant responses to megafauna extinction 121
Conclusions 129
Part II THE LATE PREHISTORIC PERIOD
8 Environmental change and Aboriginal history 132
The glacial maximum and the great flood 132
Population growth 136
A Holocene revolution: intensification 137
Fire is for kangaroos 142
Conclusions 146
9 Dingoes, people and other mammals 148
History of the dingo 148
Dingoes and people 150
Mainland extinction of the thylacine and devil 153
A role for people? 159
Other mammal declines 162
The transition to Terra Australis 165
Part III EUROPEANS AND THEIR NEW MAMMALS
10 Mammal extinction in European Australia 168
The extinction pattern 168
The extinct species 175
Mammal decline and ecosystem decay 181
11 What caused the recent extinctions? 187
Some good ideas that don t work 188
The power of introduced predators 197
12 Interactions: rabbits, sheep and dingoes 207
The grey blanket 207
The sheep plague 209
Introduced herbivores versus introduced predators 210
Hyperpredation 212
Why Australia needs more dingoes 216
A complete model and its implications 222
13 Conclusions 228
Extraordinary predators? 229
A fragile fauna? 230
Accidents of history 233
References 237
Glossary 264
List of Illustrations 267
Index 270
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