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Changes in a West Indian bird community since the late Pleistocene

2015-03-01

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AIM: To establish a chronology for late Quaternary avian extinction, extirpation and persistence in the Bahamas, thereby testing the relative roles of climate change and human impact as causes of extinction. LOCATION: Great Abaco Island (Abaco), Bahamas, West Indies. METHODS: We analysed the resident bird community as sampled by Pleistocene (> 11.7 ka) and Holocene (< 11.7 ka) fossils. Each species was classified...

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DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12418

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