Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences

by Hans-Dieter Sues (Editor)

1 • Cretaceous Meteor Showers, the Human Ecological "Niche," and the Sixth Extinction.- 2 • Prehistoric Extinctions on Islands and Continents.- 3 • The Interaction of Humans, Megaherbivores, and Habitats in the Late Pleistocene Extinction Event.- 4 • The Power of Pleistocene Forward and Backward Searching for Evidence about Mammoth Extinction.- 5 • A Comparison of Methods for the Probabilistic Determination of Vertebrate Extinction Chronologies.- 6 • Putting North America's End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction in Large-Scale Analyses of Spatial Patterns, Extinction Rates, and Size Distributions.- 7 • Rates, Patterns, and Processes of Landscape Transformation and Extinction in Madagascar.- 8 • Extinctions and Local Disappearances of Vertebrates in the Western Mediterranean Islands.- 9 • Introduced Predators and Avifaunal Extinction in New Zealand.- 10 • Late Quaternary Extinctions in An Overview.- 11 • Late Pleistocene Megafaunal A European Perspective.- 12 • The Quiet A Preliminary Listing of the Freshwater Fishes of the World that Are Extinct or "Missing in Action".- 13 • Requiem Æ The Last Five Hundred Years of Mammalian Species Extinctions.- Systematic Index.- General Index.

420 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 1999