Mid-Holocene vertebrate bone Concentration-Lagerstätte on oceanic island Mauritius provides a window into the ecosystem of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

2008/12/11 by Kenneth F. Rijsdijk, Julian P. Hume, Frans Bunnik +26 · 9 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.018

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Citations

• Avian Extinction and Mammalian Introductions on Oceanic Islands
• Dutch diaries and the demise of the dodo
• Sporormiella and the late Holocene extinctions in Madagascar
• Memoir of the dodo (didus ineptus, Linn.)

Cited by

• A review of the dodo and its ecosystem: insights from a vertebrate concentration Lagerstätte in Mauritius
• The Morphology of the Thirioux dodos
• Dodo remains from an in situ context from Mare aux Songes, Mauritius
• Harry Pasley Higginson and his role in the re-discovery of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
• How Owen ‘stole’ the Dodo: academic rivalry and disputed rights to a newly-discovered subfossil deposit in nineteenth century Mauritius
• A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands
• Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch
• Dodo [wikipedia]
• Mascarene grey parakeet [wikipedia]