Relict or colonizer? Extinction and range expansion of penguins in southern New Zealand

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1658, 2009, Pages 815-821

  Boessenkool, Sanne ^a   Austin, Jeremy J ^b   Worthy, Trevor H ^b   Scofield, Paul ^c   Cooper, Alan ^b   Seddon, Philip J ^a   Waters, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Extinction; Megadyptes antipodes; New Zealand; Palaeontology; Polynesian

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVIFAUNA; COLONIZATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXTINCTION; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATION; RANGE EXPANSION; RELICT COMMUNITY; SEABIRD;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84863470010     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1246     Document Type: Article

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