From early polynesian settlements to the present: Bird extinctions in the Gambier Islands

Pacific Science

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-281

  Thibault, Jean Claude ^a   Cibois, Alice ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; CLIFF; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; EXTINCTION; FELID; HABITAT LOSS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATURAL RESOURCE; PREDATOR; RODENT; SEABIRD; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIMEN BANK; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EASTER ISLAND; GAMBIER ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84864942592     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: 15346188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/66.3.2     Document Type: Article

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