Extinctions and invasions : a social history of British fauna

• Tác giả: Terry O'Connor, Naomi Jane Sykes
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 1905119313 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 9781905119318 (pbk.)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 591.9 Treatment of animals by specific continents, countries, localities
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oxford : Oakville, CT : Windgather Press ; [Distributor], David Brown Book Company, c2010.
• Mô tả vật lý: viii, 245 p. : , ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; , 25 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học tự nhiên
• ID: 279797
• Chủ đề: 1. Animal ecology--Great Britain; 2. Animals--Adaptation--Great Britain; 3. Biological invasions--Great Britain; 4. Extinct animals--History--Great Britain; 5. Human-animal relationships--Great Britain; 6. Introduced animals--History--Great Britain

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-231) and index.

Tóm tắt

Drawing on new research in the fields of archaeology, ecology and history, this book examines how human society, culture, diet, lifestyles and even whole landscapes were fundamentally shaped by the animal extinctions and introductions that occurred in Britain since the last Ice Age.