Terra
Subtitle: our 100-million-year-old ecosystem-- and the threats that now put it at risk
By: Michael Novacek.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780374531416
Subjects: Extinction (Biology); Evolution (Biology); Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Paleontology; Environmental degradation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-425) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The hyena; title: pt. 1: The way of the world.  A creature in the forest; title: Lush life; title: Ephemeral life; title: Elephants, dung beetles, and ecosystems; title: Evolution : life through a new lens; title: pt. 2: The world becomes modern.  Ancient ground; title: Imperial collapse; title: The dinosaurs of Middle Earth; title: A flower in the forest; title: The garden of delights; title: Toward a new ecosystem; title: Dinosaur Camelot; title: pt. 3: Death and resurrection.  A puzzling catastrophe; title: The era after; title: pt. 4: Terra Humana.  Who they were; title: The exterminators; title: The cultivators; title: Land rush; title: Dark forces; title: The waste of a world; title: Heat wave; title: Future world.