No Way Home : The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations

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 migratio...

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Main Author: Wilcove, David Samuel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Euthenics.
Climatic changes.
Animal ecology.
Nature.
Nature conservation.
Environment.
Environment, general.
Nature Conservation.
Popular Science in Nature and Environment.
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.
Animal Ecology.
Nature and nurture.
Adaptation (Biology)
Ecology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On the Move
  • Part  1: IN THE AIR. Chapter 1. Empty Skies
  • Chapter 2. A Mountain of Butterflies and a Cloud of Grasshoppers
  • Part 2: ON LAND. Chapter 3. In Search of Greener Pastures
  • Chapter 4. Where the Buffalo Roamed
  • Part 3: IN THE WATER. Chapter 5. Lost at Sea
  • Chapter 6. Against the Flow. Conclusion: No Way Home?
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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