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Natural change and human impact in Madagascar

Title
Natural change and human impact in Madagascar / edited by Steven M. Goodman and Bruce D. Patterson.
Publication
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Goodman, Steven M.
  • Patterson, Bruce D.
Description
xiii, 432 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History (form)
  • Congresses (form)
Note
  • Based on presentations made at a symposium held June 2-4, 1995 at the Field Museum, Chicago.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Madagascar : implications for biotic change in deep time / David W. Krause, Joseph H. Hartman and Neil A. Wells -- Extreme gully erosion in Madagascar and its natural and anthropogenic causes / Neil A. Wells and Benjamin R. Andriamihaja -- Theories and facts regarding Holocene environmental change before and after human colonization / David A. Burney -- The classification of natural and anthropogenic vegetation in Madagascar / Porter P. Lowry II, George E. Schatz, and Peter B. Phillipson -- Biogeographic patterns of reptiles in eastern Madagascar / Christopher J. Raxworthy and Ronald A. Nussbaum -- Lemurs : old and new / Elwyn L. Simons -- The 40,000-year plague : humans, hyperdisease, and first-contact extinctions / Ross D.E. MacPhee and Preston A. Marx -- Subfossil lemurs : inferences about past and present primate communities in Madagascar / Laurie R. Godfrey [and others] -- Subfossil birds from coastal sites in western and southwestern Madagascar : a paleoenvironmental reconstruction / Steven M. Goodman and Lucien M.A. Rakotozafy -- Effects of forest fragmentation on extinction patterns of the endemic avifauna on the Central High Plateau of Madagascar / Olivier Langrand and Lucienne Wilmé -- Cultural transformations and their impacts on the environments of Madagascar / Henry T. Wright and Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa -- A cultural history of Madagascar : evolution and interpretation of the archaeological evidence / Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa -- Mahilaka, an eleventh- to fourteenth-century Islamic port : the first impact of urbanism on Madagascar / Chantal Radimilahy -- Were people responsible for the extinction of Madagascar's subfossils, and how will we ever know? / Robert E. Dewar -- The future of biodiversity in Madagascar : a view from Ranomafana National Park / Patricia C. Wright -- Degradation, transformation, and conservation : the past, present, and possible future of Madagascar's environment / Alison F. Richard and Sheila O'Connor.
ISBN
  • 1560986824
  • 9781560986829
  • 1560986832
  • 9781560986836
LCCN
96044170
OCLC
  • ocm35620388
  • 35620388
  • SCSB-9609988
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library