by Nancy Langston
Brandeis University Press, 2021
Cloth: 978-1-68458-064-4 | Paper: 978-1-68458-065-1 | eISBN: 978-1-68458-066-8
Library of Congress Classification QL84.22.G74L36 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.95420977

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon.
 
Environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Ghost species are those that have not gone completely extinct, although they may be extirpated from a particular area. Their traces are still present, whether in DNA, in small fragmented populations, in lone individuals roaming a desolate landscape in search of a mate. We can still restore them if we make the hard choices necessary for them to survive. In this meticulously researched book, Langston delves into how climate change and human impact affected these now ghost species. Climate Ghosts covers one of the key issues of our time.