NDLI: Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Duncan, Richard P. Boyer, Alison G. Blackburn, Tim M.
Abstract	The largest extinction event in the Holocene occurred on Pacific islands, where Late Quaternary fossils reveal the loss of thousands of bird populations following human colonization of the region. However, gaps in the fossil record mean that considerable uncertainty surrounds the magnitude and pattern of these extinctions. We use a Bayesian mark-recapture approach to model gaps in the fossil record and to quantify losses of nonpasserine landbirds on 41 Pacific islands. Two-thirds of the populations on these islands went extinct in the period between first human arrival and European contact, with extinction rates linked to island and species characteristics that increased susceptibility to hunting and habitat destruction. We calculate that human colonization of remote Pacific islands caused the global extinction of close to 1,000 species of nonpasserine landbird alone; nonpasserine seabird and passerine extinctions will add to this total.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1216511110
Ending Page	6441
Page Count	6
Starting Page	6436
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00278424
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	16
Volume Number	110
Language	English
Publisher	National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2013-04-16
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific.

Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions

Bird remains from an archaeological site on Henderson Island, South Pacific: Man-caused extinctions on an “uninhabited” island

Patterned variation in prehistoric chiefdoms

Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

Stone tools from the ancient Tongan state reveal prehistoric interaction centers in the Central Pacific

Forest losses predict bird extinctions in eastern North America.

Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: Extinctions on a large Melanesian island

Patterns of prehistoric human mobility in Polynesia indicated by mtDNA from the Pacific rat

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

Similar Documents

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific.

Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions

Bird remains from an archaeological site on Henderson Island, South Pacific: Man-caused extinctions on an “uninhabited” island

Patterned variation in prehistoric chiefdoms

Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

Stone tools from the ancient Tongan state reveal prehistoric interaction centers in the Central Pacific

Forest losses predict bird extinctions in eastern North America.

Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: Extinctions on a large Melanesian island

Patterns of prehistoric human mobility in Polynesia indicated by mtDNA from the Pacific rat

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific