New data and an overview of the past avifaunas from the canary Islands

Ardeola

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-40

  Marco, Antonio Sánchez ^a  

^a Catalonian Institut of Paleontology   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Canary Islands; Endemism; Extinctions; Fossil birds; Insularity; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78149351780     PISSN: 05707358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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