A late-Holocene bird community from Hispaniola: Refining the chronology of vertebrate extinction in the West Indies

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 936-944

  Steadman, David W ^a   Takano, Oona M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

birds; fossils; Haiti; long term community change; radiocarbon dating; vertebrate extinction; West Indies

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; BONE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PRIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RODENT; SINKHOLE;

HISPANIOLA;

AVES; CARACARA; COLUMBIFORMES; COLUMBINA PASSERINA; HAPLORHINI; NYCTIDROMUS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PTERODROMA HASITATA; RODENTIA; SCOLOPAX; SIPHONORHIS BREWSTERI; SLOTHS; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE; VERTEBRATA; ZENAIDA AURITA;

EID: 84879157683     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613479683     Document Type: Article

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