Extinctions
By: edited by Matthew H. Nitecki.
Contributors: Nitecki, Matthew H.; Field Museum of Natural History.; Spring Systematics Symposium (6th : 1983 : Field Museum of Natural History)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Extinction (Biology) -- Congresses.
Notes: Based on papers presented at the Sixth Annual Spring Systematics Symposium, sponsored and held at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, on May 13-14, 1983.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Death of species / David M. Raup; title: Patterns of extinction in the fossil record of vascular plants / Andrew H. Knoll; title: Marine mass extinction / Stephen M. Stanley; title: Extinction in hominid evolution / Alan Walker; title: Catastrophic extinctions and late Pleistocene Blitzkrieg / Paul S. Martin; title: "Normal" extinctions of isolated populations / Jared M. Diamond; title: Mammalian extinction and biogeography in the southern Rocky Mountains / Bruce D. Patterson; title: Ecosystem decay of Amazon forest remnants / Thomas E. Lovejoy ... [et al.]