Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5692, 2004, Pages 1955-1958

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a   Cassey, Phillip ^a   Duncan, Richard P ^b,c   Evans, Karl L ^d   Gaston, Kevin J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PROBABILITY;

AVIAN EXTINCTION; BIRD SPECIES; OCEANIC ISLANDS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EXTINCTION RISK; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND; PREDATION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXOTIC SPECIES; FOWL; MAMMAL; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; ORGANISM COLONY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES INTRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BIRDS; CATS; ECOSYSTEM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY; RATS; WEST INDIES;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 4644243339     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101617     Document Type: Article

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