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Watching, from the edge of extinction

Author: Beverly Peterson Stearns; S C Stearns
Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999.
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Case studies
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Stearns, Beverly Peterson, 1946-
Watching, from the edge of extinction.
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999
(DLC) 98034087
(OCoLC)39464856
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Beverly Peterson Stearns; S C Stearns
ISBN: 058535104X 9780585351049
OCLC Number: 47011675
Description: 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : illustrations
Contents: Extinctions in perspective --
Empty shells --
As the Hawaiian crow flies --
Darwin, Ulysse, Rousseau --
And Brutus, too? --
Britain's large blue: a star is reborn --
Monachus monachus, in retreat --
Introducing the Nile perch --
Handle with care: a wild dog story --
SOS for a salamander and its springs --
Islands of the living dead --
The echo of their song --
Watching, from the edge of extinction --
The tropical biology association.
Responsibility: Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns.

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