No way home the decline of the world's great animal migrations /

Animal migration is a magnificent sight: a mile-long blanket of cranes rising from a Nebraska river and filling the sky; hundreds of thousands of wildebeests marching across the Serengeti; a blaze of orange as millions of monarch butterflies spread their wings to take flight. Nature's great mig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilcove, David Samuel
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, ©2008.
Washington : [2008]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Subjects:
Animal migration.
Animal populations.
Endangered ecosystems.
Environmental degradation.
milieu.
environment.
natuurbescherming.
nature conservation.
natuur.
nature.
klimaatverandering.
climatic change.
dierecologie.
Environmental Sciences (General)
Milieuwetenschappen (algemeen)
Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : On the move
  • [pt]. 1. In the air
  • g ch. 1. Empty skies
  • ch. 2. A mountain of butterflies and a cloud of grasshoppers
  • [pt]. 2. On land
  • ch. 3. In search of greener pastures
  • ch. 4. Where the buffalo roamed
  • [pt]. 3. In the water
  • ch. 5. Lost at sea
  • ch. 6. Against the flow
  • Conclusion : No way home?
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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