Use of Pollen and Ancient DNA as Conservation Baselines for Offshore Islands in New Zealand

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 202-212

  Wilmshurst, Janet M ^a   Moar, Neville T ^a   Wood, Jamie R ^a   Bellingham, Peter J ^a   Findlater, Amy M ^b   Robinson, James J ^b   Stone, Clive ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Ngatiwai Trust Board   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conservation paleoecology; Dacrydium; Deforestation; Extinctions; Island restoration; Pollen record; Prehuman; Rhopalostylis

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DNA; DOMINANCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; ISLAND; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION;

NEW ZEALAND;

ARECACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; DACRYDIUM (CONIFER); MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; RHOPALOSTYLIS;

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVATION PALEOECOLOGY; DACRYDIUM; DEFORESTACIÓN; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXTINCIONES; EXTINCTIONS; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); ISLAND RESTORATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PALEOECOLOGÍA DE CONSERVACIÓN; POLLEN; POLLEN RECORD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREHUMAN; PREHUMANO; REGISTRO DE POLEN; RESTAURACIÓN DE ISLAS; RHOPALOSTYLIS; SOIL;

CONSERVATION PALEOECOLOGY; DACRYDIUM; DEFORESTACIÓN; DEFORESTATION; EXTINCIONES; EXTINCTIONS; ISLAND RESTORATION; PALEOECOLOGÍA DE CONSERVACIÓN; POLLEN RECORD; PREHUMAN; PREHUMANO; REGISTRO DE POLEN; RESTAURACIÓN DE ISLAS; RHOPALOSTYLIS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; ISLANDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEW ZEALAND; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL;

EID: 84893652291     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12150     Document Type: Article

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