Book ID: CBB000952103

Lost Land of the Dodo: An Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues (2008)

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Cheke, A. S. (Author)
Hume, Julian Pender (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: 464 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Charts the ecological changes, especially the many extinctions, since the discovery and colonization of these islands beginning in the 1500s.


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Authors & Contributors
Vergara, Germán
Rune Graulund
McPhee, Daryl
Johan Anders Höglund
Justin D. Edwards
Whyte, Ian
Journals
Environmental History
Technology and Culture
Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine
History of Science
British Journal for the History of Science
Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University of Virginia Press
University of Minnesota Press
University of Chicago Press
Routledge
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Environmental sciences
Environmental history
Ecology
Extinction (biology)
Environmental degradation
Conservation biology
People
Odum, Howard Thomas
Mahony, Martin
Lamotius, Isaac Johannes
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
20th century
Early modern
Modern
21st century
Places
United States
Mauritius
Indian Ocean
Queensland (Australia)
Puerto Rico
Russia
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