Corridors to Extinction and the Australian Megafauna

• Author : Steve Webb
• Publisher : Newnes
• Release Date : 2013-02-27
• ISBN : 9780124078406

Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa, Steller's Sea Cow, the Dodo, Great Auk and countless other species great and small, all attributed to human agency. Therefore, the megafauna were humans’ first great impact on the planet. There is now an increasing realization that the 'blitzkrieg' view of these extinctions

• Author : Bruno David,Paul Taçon,Jean-Jacques Delannoy,Jean-Michel Geneste
• Publisher : ANU Press
• Release Date : 2017-11-30
• ISBN : 9781760461621

Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually most impressive regional assemblages anywhere in the world. To better understand this multi-dimensional cultural record, The Archaeology

• Author : Steve Morton
• Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
• Release Date : 2022-02
• ISBN : 9781486306008

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent – the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how Australian deserts work ecologically. This book outlines why unpredictable rainfall and paucity of soil nutrients underpin the nature of desert ecosystems, while also describing how plants and animals came to be desert dwellers through evolutionary time.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2020-12-16
• ISBN : 9780081029091

Encyclopedia of Geology, Second Edition presents in six volumes state-of-the-art reviews on the various aspects of geologic research, all of which have moved on considerably since the writing of the first edition. New areas of discussion include extinctions, origins of life, plate tectonics and its influence on faunal provinces, new types of mineral and hydrocarbon deposits, new methods of dating rocks, and geological processes. Users will find this to be a fundamental resource for teachers and students of geology, as

• Author : Anthony J. Stuart
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 2021-01-28
• ISBN : 9780226432984

Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including the role of humans in their extinction, their disappearance at the start of the Sixth Extinction, and what they might teach us about contemporary conservation crises. Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the Stone Age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacular large animals that are no longer with us roamed the Earth.

• Author : Tim Low
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release Date : 2016-09-27
• ISBN : 9780300226805

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia’s distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the birds of Australia flew beyond the continent’s boundaries and around the globe many millions of years ago. This eye-opening book tells the dynamic but little-known story of how Australia provided the world with songbirds and parrots, among other bird groups, why Australian

• Author : Steve Webb
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2018-05-07
• ISBN : 9780128147993

Made in Africa: Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence describes and documents the largest collection of modern human remains in the world from its time period. These Australian fossils, which represent modern humans at the end of their great 20,000 km journey from Africa, may be reburied in the next two years at the request of the Aboriginal community. Part one of the book provides an overview of modern humans, their ancestors, and their journeys, explores the construct of human

• Author : Mike Smith
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2013-02-25
• ISBN : 9780521407458

This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.

• Author : Gary Haynes
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2008-12-23
• ISBN : 9781402087936

The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts

• Author : Benjamin Lieberman,Elizabeth Gordon
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release Date : 2021-12-02
• ISBN : 9781350170353

Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and going up to the present day, this book illustrates how natural climate variability affected early human societies and how human activity is now leading to drastic changes to our climate. Taking a chronological approach the authors explain how climate change created opportunities and challenges for human societies in each major time period,

• Author : Steven Mithen
• Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Release Date : 2011-12-08
• ISBN : 9781780222592

A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen. Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of hunters and gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites there were towns.

• Author : James L. Kohen
• Publisher : UNSW Press
• Release Date : 1995
• ISBN : 0868403016

When Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Port Jackson, Sydney, he saw a magnificent harbour lined with trees. Many areas were park-like in appearance with well-spaced trees interspersed with patches of grass. The local Aborigines were soon driven away and with them went the practice of regularly burning off the undergrowth. The grass disappeared and the undergrowth took over, and so emerged the 'untidy' bush of the foreshore that we see today. For 50,000 years before white settlement the Aboriginal people were

• Author : Margaret Robertson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2021-01-29
• ISBN : 9781000299991

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping students with both conceptual understanding and technical skills. Each chapter explores one aspect of the field, first introducing concepts and presenting issues, then supplying tools for working toward solutions. Elements of sustainability are examined piece by piece, and coverage ranges over ecosystems, social equity, environmental justice, food, energy, product life cycles, cities, and more. Techniques for

• Author : David Lindenmayer,Mark Burgman
• Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
• Release Date : 2005-10-26
• ISBN : 9780643099463

Practical Conservation Biology covers the complete array of topics that are central to conservation biology and natural resource management, thus providing the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in these subject areas. Written by two of the world’s leading environment experts, it is a ‘must have’ reference for environment professionals in government, non-government and industry sectors. The book reflects the latest thinking on key topics such as extinction risks, losses of genetic variability, threatening processes, fire effects, landscape

• Author : Andrew S. Pullin
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2002-06-27
• ISBN : 0521644828

This colourful textbook introduces students to conservation biology, the science of preserving biodiversity.