A Review of ‘The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History’

2014/03/01 by Darren Naish · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Medicine · #Archaeology #Avian ecology and behavior #Biology #Ecology #Genetic diversity and population structure #Geography #Geology #Internal medicine #Medicine #Natural (archaeology) #Natural history #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Solitaire Cryptographic Algorithm

paper · doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.803977

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Abstract

About 1690 (give or take a decade or two) the last specimen of that remarkable giant flightless pigeon known today as the Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, expired, and the species, endemic to Mauritius, wa...

Citations

• Flight of the Dodo
• A giant flightless pigeon gen. et sp. nov. and a new species of Ducula (Aves: Columbidae), from Quaternary deposits in Fiji
• An ecomorphological review of the dodo(Raphus cucullatus)and solitaire(Pezophaps solitaria),flightless Columbiformes of the Mascarene Islands
• Plant-Animal Mutualism: Coevolution with Dodo Leads to Near Extinction of Plant
• The Dodo and the Tambalacoque Tree: An Obligate Mutualism Reconsidered
• Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences Support a Cretaceous Origin of Columbiformes and a Dispersal-Driven Radiation in the Paleogene

Cited by

• Choiseul pigeon [wikipedia]
• Raphina [wikipedia]

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