Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world
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Chicago ; The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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xxi, 376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
304.25 BERGER 2018
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Published
Chicago ; The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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Includes index.
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"Extraordinary. . . . Berger is a hero of biology who deserves the highest honors that science can bestow."Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books. 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, Joel Bergers Extreme Conservation 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.Bergers quest to understand these creatures struggles takes him to some of the most remote corners and peaks of the globe: across Arctic tundra and the frozen Chukchi Sea to study muskoxen, into the Bhutanese Himalayas to follow the rarely sighted takin, and through the Gobi Desert to track the proboscis-swinging saiga. Known as much for his rigorous, scientific methods of developing solutions to conservation challenges as for his penchant for donning moose and polar bear costumes to understand the mindsets of his subjects more closely, Berger is a guide par excellence. He is a scientist and storyteller who has made his life working with desert nomads, in zones that typically require Sherpas and oxygen canisters. Recounting animals as charismatic as their landscapes are extreme, Bergers unforgettable tale carries us with humor and expertise to the ends of the earth and back. But as his adventures show, the more adapted a species has become to its particular ecological niche, the more devastating climate change can be. Life at the extremes is more challenging than ever, and the need for action, for solutions, has never been greater.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Berger, J. (2018). Extreme conservation: life at the edges of the world . The University of Chicago Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Berger, Joel. 2018. Extreme Conservation: Life At the Edges of the World. The University of Chicago Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Berger, Joel. Extreme Conservation: Life At the Edges of the World The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Berger, Joel. Extreme Conservation: Life At the Edges of the World The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

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