Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Anson W. Mackay: An Introduction to Late Glacial - Holocene Environments
2: Samuel T. Turvey: In the Shadow of the Megafauna: Prehistoric Mammal and Bird Extinctions across the Holocene
3: Samuel T. Turvey: Holocene Mammal Extinctions
4: Tommy Tyrberg: Holocene Avian Extinctions
5: Wendell R. Haag: Past and Future Patterns of Freshwater Mussel Extinctions in North America during the Holocene
6: Nicholas K. Dulvy, John K. Pinnegar & John D. Reynolds: Holocene Extinctions in the Sea
7: R. Paul Scofield: Procellariform Extinctions in the Holocene: Threat Processes and Wider Ecosystem-Scale Implications
8: Robert R. Dunn: Coextinction: Anecdotes, Models and Speculation
9: Ben Collen & Samuel T. Turvey: Probabilistic Methods for Determining Extinction Chronologies
10: Samuel T. Turvey & Joanne H. Cooper: The Past is Another Country: Is Evidence for Prehistoric, Historical and Present-Day Extinction Really Comparable?
11: Rob Marchant, Simon Brewer, Thompson Webb III & Samuel T. Turvey: Holocene Deforestation: A History of Human-Environmental Interactions, Climate Change and Extinction
12: Julie L. Lockwood, Tim M. Blackburn, Phillip Cassey & Julian D. Olden: The Shape of Things to Come: Non-Native Mammalian Predators and the Fate of Island Bird Diversity
13: J. R. Stewart: The Quaternary Fossil Record as a Source of Data for Evidence-Based Conservation: Is the Past the Key to the Future?
14: Arne Ø. Mooers, Simon J. Goring, Samuel T. Turvey & Tyler S. Kuhn: Holocene Extinctions and the Loss of Feature Diversity
References

About the Author

Samuel Turvey is Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology, a department of the Zoological Society of London. He is a conservation biologist with a principal interest in the history and prehistory of human-caused extinctions and in developing conservation strategies for today's threatened species. He was deeply involved with the conservation efforts surrounding the Yangtze River dolphin, and was the lead author of the 2007 paper in Biology Letters which declared
that it was probably extinct, generating tremendous international media attention. He has published numerous other academic papers in a range of scientific journals, including Nature.

Reviews

This volume represents a valuable contribution to the literature on the late Quaternary and particularly on extinction dynamics. It should be of considerable use to conservation biologists and paleontologists, as well as anyone interested in the historical record of the Earth.
*Felisa A. Smith, Quarterly Review of Biology*