The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Last Glacial Maximum
latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG)
Lawson, Nicholas
lead poisoning
Leakey, Richard
leaky-replacement hypothesis
Leipzig Zoo
lemurs, giant
Lewis, Meriwether
lianas
life, history of
Cuvier
direction in
Ordovician and
Sixth Extinction and
Lilliput effect
limpets
Patella caerulea
Linnaeus, Carl
Longueuil, Charles Le Moyne, second Baron de
loosestrife, purple
Lopez, Barry
Los Angeles Zoo
Louis XV, King of France
Lovejoy, Tom
Luehea seemannii
Lyell, Charles
Lynch’s Crater
Maastricht animal. See mosasaur
MacArthur, Robert
Madagascar
mammals
background extinction rate and
endangered
K-T extinction and
native to Guam
number of species