Terra : our 100-million-year-old ecosystem--and the threats that now put it at risk / Michael Novacek.
Novacek, Michael J.
2007
QE721.2.E97 N68 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Terra : our 100-million-year-old ecosystem--and the threats that now put it at risk / Michael Novacek.
Author Novacek, Michael J.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780374273255 (alk. paper)
0374273251 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2007.
Language English
Description xxiv, 451 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number QE721.2.E97 N68 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 576.8/4
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-425) and index.
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Prologue: The hyena
pt. 1: The way of the world. A creature in the forest
Lush life
Ephemeral life
Elephants, dung beetles, and ecosystems
Evolution : life through a new lens
pt. 2: The world becomes modern. Ancient ground
Imperial collapse
The dinosaurs of Middle Earth
A flower in the forest
The garden of delights
Toward a new ecosystem
Dinosaur Camelot
pt. 3: Death and resurrection. A puzzling catastrophe
The era after
pt. 4: Terra Humana. Who they were
The exterminators
The cultivators
Land rush
Dark forces
The waste of a world
Heat wave
Future world.

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