Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4735722 Quaternary Science Reviews 2012 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Molecular and paleontological data key to understand evolution in oceanic islands. ► Extant birds colonized macaronesian archipelagos within the last four million years. ► Fossil records support the idea that higher species richness previously existed. ► Extinction data suggests an extinction process mediated by man.
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Age, origins and extinctions of the avifauna of Macaronesia: a synthesis of phylogenetic and fossil information
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