The Resource Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world, Joel Berger
Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world, Joel Berger
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The item Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world, Joel Berger represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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." -- From Amazon.com summary
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxi, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780226366265
- Label
- Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world
- Title
- Extreme conservation
- Title remainder
- life at the edges of the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Joel Berger
- Title variation
- Life at the edges of the world
- Language
- eng
- 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." -- From Amazon.com summary
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Berger, Joel
- Dewey number
- 304.2/5
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GF75
- LC item number
- .B474 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nature
- Climatic changes
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world, Joel Berger
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxi, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780226366265
- Lccn
- 2018001006
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)on1004265575
- (OCoLC)1004265575
- 1164884
- 1355195
- 1355195
- Label
- Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world, Joel Berger
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xxi, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780226366265
- Lccn
- 2018001006
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)on1004265575
- (OCoLC)1004265575
- 1164884
- 1355195
- 1355195
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