Do New Zealand invertebrates reflect the dominance of birds in their evolutionary history?

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 152-157

  Gibbs, George ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anti predator defenses; Camouflage; Extinctions; Insect ecology; Island ecology; Large body mass; Vertebrate predation

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIRD; BODY MASS; DOMINANCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; EXTINCTION; GUILD; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INSECTIVORE; INVERTEBRATE; RODENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

APTERYX; AVES; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77949287409     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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