Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds

by David W. Steadman

Book Overview

Sprinkled across the tropical Pacific, the innumerable islands of Oceania are home to some of the most unique bird communities on the planet, and they sustain species found nowhere else on earth. Many of the birds that live in this region are endangered, however; many more have become extinct as a result of human activity, in both recent and prehistoric times.

Reconstructing the avian world in the same way archeologists re-create ancient human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226771415
• ISBN13: 9780226771410
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.7" x 11.2"