Seeking Books on American Megafauna

[smellincoffee]

I've long had a fascination with the animals that occupied the Americas before the arrival of humans -- not just the mammoths, but the beasts few hear of, like the American lion and rhinoceros. I've just read The Ghosts of Evolution, which drew out some ecological relationships that might have existed before these beasts went extinct, and it's ignited my curiosity all the more. While I know the amount of information available on these extraordinary creatures is limited given that they're extinct and we only have fossils to go by, are there any books out there that take American megafauna as their subject?

[Ophiolite]

I don't have any books to recommend, but the following papers look interesting. They are some that turned up in a Google Scholar search for "American Megafauna".

 

http://www.esf.edu/efb/lomolino/courses/MammalDiversity/Disc1/All1.pdf

http://www.geography.wisc.edu/faculty/williams/lab/pubs/Science%202009%20Gill.pdf

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mbinford/GEOXXXX_Biogeography/LiteratureForLinks/FiedelHaynes_2004_premature_burial_overkill_JAS.pdf

http://snr.missouri.edu/fw/faculty/pdf/gompper/extinction-risk.pdf

 

Etc - out of the 340+ hits, I should think there are at least a couple of dozen relevant ones.

 

And this just out a week ago:

http://www.pnas.org/content/99/23/14624.full

[smellincoffee]

I've never used Google Scholar before, but it seems like a promising resource! Thanks. I did find one book today.."Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Organisms and Environments), by Paul Martin. I've registered with AAAS and am digging in...