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Main Author:	Johnson, Chris 1958- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
Edition:	1. publ.
Subjects:	Geschichte Anfänge-2006 Extinct mammals > Australia Synökologie Säugetiere Artensterben Pleistozän Fossile Säugetiere Australien
Links:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002231.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2006002231-d.html http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015583462&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	IX, 278 S., [10] Bl. Ill., Kt., graph. Darst.
ISBN:	0521849187 9780521849180 0521686601 9780521686600

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adam_text	Australia s Mammal Extinctions A 50 000 year history ChrisJohnson CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS *g 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 v i
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