Mid-Holocene vertebrate bone Concentration-Lagerstätte on oceanic island Mauritius provides a window into the ecosystem of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 14-24

  Rijsdijk, Kenneth F ^a,b,c   Hume, Julian P ^d,e   Bunnik, Frans ^c   Florens, F B Vincent ^f   Baider, Claudia ^g   Shapiro, Beth ^h   van der Plicht, Johannes ⁱ   Janoo, Anwar ^j   Griffiths, Owen ^k   van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W ^a   Cremer, Holger ^c   Vernimmen, Tamara ^l   De Louw, Perry G B ⁿ   Bholah, Assenjee ^g   Saumtally, Salem ^g   Porch, Nicolas ^m   Haile, James ^h   Buckley, Mike ^o   Collins, Matthew ^o   Gittenberger, Edmund ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^g Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute   (Mauritius)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^j National Heritage Trust Fund Mauritius   (Mauritius)

^k Bioculture (Mauritius) Ltd   (Mauritius)

^l BotanicAll Archaeobotanical Research   (Netherlands)

^m AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^o DELTARES   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BONE; COLLAGEN; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; MAMMALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC ACIDS; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

ABIOTIC CONDITIONS; ARIDIFICATION; BONE COLLAGENS; DRY ENVIRONMENTS; FRESHWATER LAKES; HOLOCENE; HUMAN IMPACTS; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; INDIAN OCEAN REGIONS; MACROFOSSILS; MAURITIUS; MICRO FOSSILS; OCEANIC ISLANDS; PLANT TISSUES; RADIOCARBON AGES; VERTEBRATE SPECIES; VOLCANIC ISLANDS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARIDIFICATION; BIRD; BONE; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MASCARENE ISLANDS; MAURITIUS;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYLINDRASPIS; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; RAPHUS CUCULLATUS; TESTUDINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57849101508     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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