To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Palaeontology  Palaeozoology & Extinctions

Late Quaternary Fossil Mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies

Monograph Journal / Magazine
By: Gary S Morgan(Author), Ross DE MacPhee(Author), Roseina Woods(Author), Samuel T Turvey(Author)
79 pages, 24 b/w photos, b/w illustrations and b/w maps, 8 tables
Late Quaternary Fossil Mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies
Click to have a closer look
  • Late Quaternary Fossil Mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies Paperback Mar 2019 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks
    £41.99
    #246795
Price: £41.99
About this book Customer reviews Related titles
Images Additional images
Late Quaternary Fossil Mammals from the Cayman Islands, West IndiesLate Quaternary Fossil Mammals from the Cayman Islands, West IndiesLate Quaternary Fossil Mammals from the Cayman Islands, West IndiesLate Quaternary Fossil Mammals from the Cayman Islands, West Indies

About this book

Abundant fossils of nesophontid lipotyphlan insectivores and capromyid rodents have been collected from late Quaternary deposits on the Cayman Islands, an island group separated by a major marine barrier from other Caribbean landmasses and isolated from anthropogenic impacts until the arrival of Columbus in 1503 CE. These collections have not previously been formally described. Using morphological and ancient DNA approaches, we document three new taxa of extinct endemic terrestrial mammals from this island group: Nesophontes hemicingulus (Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac), Capromys pilorides lewisi (Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac), and Geocapromys caymanensis (Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac). Morphometric comparisons with other extinct and living West Indian mammals indicate that the biogeographic origins of all three new taxa are from source populations on Cuba. Ancient DNA data indicate very low sequence divergence of Capromys pilorides lewisi from mainland Cuban C. pilorides (only 0.5% across the entire mitogenome). Using probabilistic analysis of existing and new radiometric dates, we calculate an estimated extinction date of 1700 CE (95% confidence interval = 1632-1774 CE) for the Cayman Brac Capromys population. This result suggests that at least one endemic Cayman terrestrial mammal population survived for well over a century following first European arrival in the Cayman Islands. The West Indies lost nearly all its species-rich late Quaternary land mammal fauna during the late Holocene due to direct or indirect human impacts, and this study provides a new baseline to understand the magnitude of human-caused mammal extinctions during the recent past.

Customer Reviews

Monograph Journal / Magazine
By: Gary S Morgan(Author), Ross DE MacPhee(Author), Roseina Woods(Author), Samuel T Turvey(Author)
79 pages, 24 b/w photos, b/w illustrations and b/w maps, 8 tables
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides