James P. Collins

Extinction in Our Times

Global Amphibian Decline

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For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly and mysteriously. What is causing these extinctions? What role do human actions play in them? What do they tell us about the overall state of biodiversity on the planet? In Extinction in Our Times, James Collins and Martha Crump explore these pressing questions and many others as they document the first modern extinction event across an entire vertebrate class, using global examples that range from the Sierra Nevada of California to the rainforests of Costa Rica a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Crump, Martha L. / Lovejoy III, Thomas E.

ISBN: 978-0-19-988633-3
EAN: 9780199886333
Produktnummer: 13876281
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'463 KB
Abbildungen: 25 halftone and 3 line illus.

Über den Autor

James P. Collins is Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at the School of Life Life Sciences, Arizona State University, and the Assistant Director for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation.Martha L. Crump is Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University and the author of Headless Males Make Great Lovers.