Long-term ecological change in a conservation hotspot: The fossil avifauna of Mé Auré Cave, New Caledonia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3207-3224

  Boyer, Alison G ^a,b   James, Helen F ^b   Olson, Storrs L ^b   Grant Mackie, Jack A ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Birds; Deforestation; Extinction; Owl pellet; Pacific islands; Radiocarbon; Sclerophyll forest; Subfossil; Turnix

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; BIRD; BONE; CAVE; DEFORESTATION; DRY FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTINCTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT LOSS; PROTECTED AREA; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBFOSSIL;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

AVES; STRIGIFORMES; TURNIX; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84755160916     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9887-9     Document Type: Article

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