Paleoecology of Beringia

Content: 
Inside Front Cover, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
CONTRIBUTORS, Pages ix-x
PREFACE, Pages xi-xii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, Pages xiii-xiv
INTRODUCTION TO PALEOGEOGRAPHY, Pages 1-2, David M. Hopkins
1 - ASPECTS OF THE PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF BERINGIA DURING THE LATE PLEISTOCENE, Pages 3-28, David M. Hopkins
2 - EVOLUTION OF LOWLAND LANDSCAPES IN NORTHEASTERN ASIA DURING LATE QUATERNARY TIME, Pages 29-37, S.V. Tomirdiaro
INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT VEGETATION—THE FOSSIL RECORD, Pages 39-41
3 - COMPARISON OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TUNDRA-STEPPE ENVIRONMENTS IN WEST AND EAST BERINGIA: POLLEN AND MACROFOSSIL EVIDENCE FROM KEY SECTIONS, Pages 43-55,57-73, R.E. Giterman, A.V. Sher, J.V. Matthews Jr.
4 - VEGETATIONAL HISTORY OF WESTERN ALASKA DURING THE WISCONSIN GLACIAL INTERVAL AND THE HOLOCENE, Pages 75-93, Thomas A. Ager
5 - LATE PLEISTOCENE VEGETATION OF EASTERN BERINGIA: POLLEN ANALYSIS OF DATED ALLUVIUM, Pages 95-112, Charles E. Schweger
6 - THE LATE QUATERNARY VEGETATION OF THE NORTH YUKON, Pages 113-126, James C. Ritchie, Les C. Cwynar
7 - EAST BERINGIA DURING LATE WISCONSIN TIME: A REVIEW OF THE BIOTIC EVIDENCE, Pages 127-150, J.V. Matthews Jr.
INTRODUCTION TO THE STEPPE-TUNDRA CONCEPT AND ITS APPLICATION IN BERINGIA, Pages 151-152, David M. Hopkins
8 - HISTORY OF THE STEPPE-TUNDRA CONCEPT, Pages 153-156, Dennis Hibbert
9 - RELICS OF THE XEROPHYTE VEGETATION OF BERINGIA IN NORTHEASTERN ASIA, Pages 157-177, Boris A. Yurtsev
10 - THE VEGETATION OF LAND-BRIDGE BERINGIA, Pages 179-191, Steven B. Young
INTRODUCTION TO PALEOCLIMATE, Pages 193-194, Steven B. Young
11 - APPROACHES TO RECONSTRUCTING THE CLIMATE OF THE STEPPE-TUNDRA BIOME, Pages 195-204, Roger G. Barry
12 - APPROACHES TO MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF THE STEPPE-TUNDRA PALEOCLIMATE, Pages 205-218, Tzvi Gal-Chen
INTRODUCTION TO PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND THE PLEISTOCENE UNGULATES—THE PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX, Pages 219-221, Charles E. Schweger
13 - PRODUCTION AND DIVERSITY IN CONTEMPORARY GRASSLANDS, Pages 223-239, R.E. Redmann
14 - PRESENT-DAY ARCTIC VEGETATION AND ECOSYSTEMS AS A PREDICTIVE TOOL FOR THE ARCTIC-STEPPE MAMMOTH BIOME, Pages 241-257, L.C. Bliss, James H. Richards
15 - DIGESTIVE AND GRAZING STRATEGIES OF ANIMALS IN THE ARCTIC STEPPE, Pages 259-266, P. Jerome Martin
16 - PALEOECOLOGY OF THE MAMMOTH FAUNA IN THE EURASIAN ARCTIC, Pages 267-279, N.K. Vereshchagin, G.F. Baryshnikov
17 - MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS OF THE MAMMOTH: AN ADAPTATION TO THE ARCTIC-STEPPE ENVIRONMENT, Pages 281-289, Henryk Kubiak
18 - ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF LIVING ELEPHANTS: BASES FOR ASSUMPTIONS CONCERNING THE EXTINCT WOOLLY MAMMOTHS, Pages 291-305, Robert C.D. Olivier
19 - MAMMALS OF THE MAMMOTH STEPPE AS PALEOENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS, Pages 307-326, R. Dale Guthrie
INTRODUCTION TO MAN IN ANCIENT BERINGIA, Pages 327-328, David M. Hopkins
20 - LATE PLEISTOCENE MAN IN NORTHERN ALASKA AND THE MAMMOTH-STEPPE BIOME, Pages 329-352, Hansjügen Müller-Beck
21 - ANCIENT BERINGIANS: HUMAN OCCUPATION IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE OF ALASKA AND THE YUKON TERRITORY, Pages 353-381, Richard E. Morlan, Jacques Cinq-Mars
22 - WERE CLOVIS PROGENITORS IN BERINGIA?, Pages 383-398, C. Vance Haynes
23 - THE PATTERN AND MEANING OF HOLARCTIC MAMMOTH EXTINCTION, Pages 399-408, Paul S. Martin
24 - ARGUING FROM THE PRESENT TO THE PAST: A CONTEMPORARY CASE STUDY OF HUMAN PREDATION ON AFRICAN BUFFALO, Pages 409-423, Stuart A. Marks
PALEOECOLOGY OF BERINGIA—A SYNTHESIS, Pages 425-444, C.E. Schweger, J.V. Matthews Jr., D.M. Hopkins, S.B. Young
REFERENCES, Pages 445-474
GENERAL INDEX, Pages 475-483
INDEX TO FAUNAL AND FLORAL TAXA, Pages 485-489