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Berger, Joel.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Climatic changes.
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Berger, Joel.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Climatic changes.
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Extreme conservation :
life
at the
edges
of the
world
/ Joel Berger.
by
Berger, Joel.
The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Call #:
304.25 B496e
Subjects
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Climatic changes.
ISBN:
9780226366265 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Life
at the
edges
of the
world
Description:
xxi, 376 p. : ill. (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
At the intersection of continents : Beringia's silent bestiary -- Motherless children in black and white -- Before now -- Beyond Arctic wind -- Where worlds collide -- Muskoxen in ice -- When the snow turns to rain -- Sentinels of Tibetan plateau -- Below the margins of glaciers -- The ethereal yak -- Birthplace of angry gods -- Gobi ghosts, Himalayan shadows -- Counting for conservation -- To kill a saiga -- Victims of fashion -- In the valley of Takin -- Pavilions where snow dragons hide -- Adapt, move, or die -- The struggle for existence -- A postapocalyptic
world
: Vrangel -- Nyima.
Summary:
"On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns here to shift, and with the snows, the entire ecosystem. Food and water are vaporizing in this warming environment, and these beasts of ice and thin air are extraordinarily ill-equipped for the change. A journey into some of the most forbidding landscapes on earth, [this book] is an eye-opening, steely look at what it takes for animals like these to live at the
edges
of existence. But more than this, it is a revealing exploration of how climate change and people are affecting even the most far-flung niches of our planet."
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Woodlawn Public Library
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304.25 B496e
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