An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa
New Zealand moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) are the only late Quaternary megafauna whose extinction was clearly caused by humans. New Zealand offers the best opportunity to estimate the number of people involved in a megafaunal extinction event because, uniquely, both the Polynesian settlement of New Z...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Macmillan Publishers Limited
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11442 |