Extinctions

Author(s)

• Nitecki, Matthew H.
• Annual Spring Systematics Symposium, Extinctions
• Field Museum of Natural History

Bibliographic Information

Extinctions

edited by Matthew H. Nitecki

University of Chicago Press, 1984

• : pbk

Note

Based on papers presented at the Sixth Annual Spring Systematics Symposium, Extinctions sponsored and held at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, on May 13-14, 1983

Includes indexes

Contents of Works

• Death of species / David M. Raup
• Patterns of extinction in the fossil record of vascular plants / Andrew H. Knoll
• Marine mass extinctions / Steven M. Stanley
• Extinction in hominid evolution / Alan Walker
• Catastrophic extinctions and late Pleistocene Blitzkrieg / Paul S. Martin
• "Normal" extinctions of isolated populations / Jared M. Diamond
• Mammalian extinction and biogeography in the southern Rocky Mountains / Bruce D. Patterson
• Ecosystem decay of Amazon forest remnants / Thomas E. Lovejoy ... [et al.]

• NCID: BA01133659
• ISBN:
  • 0226586898
  • 0226586901
• LCCN: 84040253
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 354 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QE721.2.E97
  • DC19 : 575/.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Extinction (Biology) -- Congresses