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Wildlife Science
Consciously or not, wildlife managers generally act from a theoretical basis, although they may not be fully versed in the details or ramifications of that theory. In practice, the predictions of the practitioners sometimes prove more accurate than those of the theoreticians. Practitioners and theoreticians need to work together, but this proves di
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Holocene Extinctions
The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic fluctuations and a general lack of data. However, the Holocene (the geological interval spanning the last 11,500 years from the end of the last glaciation) has witnessed massive levels of extinctions that have continued into the modern historical era, but in a context of only relatively minor climatic fluctuations. This makes a detailed consideration of these extinctions a useful system for investigating the impacts of human activity over time. Holocene Extinctions describes and analyses the range of global extinction events whic...
Belonging on an Island
A lively, rich natural history of Hawaiian birds that challenges existing ideas about what constitutes biocultural nativeness and belonging This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands’ beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concept of belonging. Author Daniel Lewis, an award-winning historian and globe-traveling amateur birder, builds this lively text around the stories of four species—the Stumbling Moa-Nalo, the Kaua‘I ‘O‘o, the Palila, and the Japanese White-Eye. Lewis offers innovative ways to think about what it means to be native and proposes new definitions that apply to people as well as to birds. Being native, he argues, is a relative state influenced by factors including the passage of time, charisma, scarcity, utility to others, short-term evolutionary processes, and changing relationships with other organisms. This book also describes how bird conservation started in Hawai‘i, and the naturalists and environmentalists who did extraordinary work.
Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age
Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.
Fossil Legends of the First Americans
The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones...
The Survival of Easter Island
Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of its collapse.
Beyond Hawai'i
Boki's predicament : Sandalwood and the China trade -- Make's dance : Migrant workers and migratory animals -- Kealoha in the Arctic : Whale blubber and human bodies -- Kailiopio and the tropicbird : Life and labor on a Guano Island -- Nahoa's tears : Gold, dreams, and diaspora in California -- Beckwith's Pilikia : "Kanakas" and "Coolies" on Haiku plantation -- Epilogue : Legacies of capitalism and colonialism
Suomen lintutieteen synty
Suomen lintutieteen synty avaa näköalan Turun Akatemiassa ennen vuoden 1827 suurta paloa tehtyyn lintututkimukseen. Millaista oli 1600- ja 1700-lukujen tietämys linnuista ja miltä se näyttää nykytiedon valossa? Turun Akatemian lintututkimukset ovat pääosin latinankielisinä ja lähestymistavaltaan vieraina jääneet huonosti tunnetuiksi ja aliarvostetuiksi. Tähän teokseen sisältyvät suomennokset Aurajoen akatemian lintuaiheisista opinnäytteistä ja muista aikalaistutkimuksista. Aihepiirit vaihtelevat ulapan aaltojen myyttisestä jäälinnusta lintuteologiaan, pääskyjen talvehtimisen mysteeristä maamme vanhimman naurulokkiyhdyskunnan tieteellisen tarkkaan kuvaukseen. Teos sisältää myös ensimmäisen Suomen lintujen lajiluettelon. Suomen lintutieteen synty on ainutlaatuinen tietokirja ja välttämätön lähdeteos kaikille Suomen linnuston ja lintutieteen kehityksestä innostuneille. Toinen korjattu painos (2020) sisältää laajat hakemistot.
