The carnivore way : coexisting with and conserving North America's predators / by Cristina Eisenberg.
Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2014]Description: xvi, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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- 9781597269827
- 1597269824
- Coexisting with and conserving North America's predators
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- QL737.C2 E38 2014
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | NMC Library | Stacks | QL737 .C2 E38 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 33039001352748 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-285) and index.
Introduction: Journey into wildness -- Wildways: Corridor ecology and large carnivores ; The ecological role of large carnivores ; Crossings -- Where the carnivores roam Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) ; Wolf (Canis lupus) ; Wolverine (Gulo gulo luscus) ; Lynx (Lynx canadensis) ; Cougar (Puma concolor) ; Jaguar (Panthera onca) -- Conclusion: Earth household.
In The Carnivore Way, Cristina Eisenberg argues compellingly for the necessity of top predators in large, undisturbed landscapes, and how a continental-long corridor - a "carnivore way" - provides the room they need to roam and connected landscapes that allow them to disperse. Eisenberg follows the footsteps of six large carnivores - wolves, grizzly bears, lynx, jaguars, wolverines, and cougars - on a 7,500-mile wildlife corridor from Alaska to Mexico along the Rocky Mountains. Backed by robust science, she shows how their well-being is a critical factor in sustaining healthy landscapes and how it is possible for humans and large carnivores to coexist peacefully and even to thrive.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
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