Continental-style avian extinctions on an oceanic island

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 429, Issue , 2015, Pages 163-170

  Meijer, Hanneke J M ^a,b   Tocheri, Matthew W ^a,c   Due, Rokus Awe ^d   Sutikna, Thomas ^d,e   Saptomo, E Wahyu ^d   James, Helen F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^c LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birds; Extinction; Flores; Islands; Late Pleistocene; Wallacea

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIETARY OVERLAP; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GUILD; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; RECOLONIZATION; SCAVENGER;

EAST NUSA TENGGARA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES;

AVES; GABAZA; LEPTOPTILOS; MAMMALIA; PASSERIFORMES; TRIGONOCEPS;

EID: 84928553625     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.03.041     Document Type: Article

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