No Way Home The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations /

• Main Author: Wilcove, David S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Animal ecology.; Nature.; Nature conservation.; Environment, general.; Nature Conservation.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Animal Ecology.

Animal migration is a magnificent sight: a mile-long blanket of cranes rising from a Nebraska river and filling the sky; hundreds of thousands of wildebeests marching across the Serengeti; a blaze of orange as millions of monarch butterflies spread their wings to take flight. Nature’s great migratio...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: On the Move
• Part  1: IN THE AIR. Chapter 1. Empty Skies
• Chapter 2. A Mountain of Butterflies and a Cloud of Grasshoppers
• Part 2: ON LAND. Chapter 3. In Search of Greener Pastures
• Chapter 4. Where the Buffalo Roamed
• Part 3: IN THE WATER. Chapter 5. Lost at Sea
• Chapter 6. Against the Flow. Conclusion: No Way Home?
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index.