Ancient DNA of New Zealand's extinct avifauna

• Main Author: Boast, Alexander Peter
• Other Authors: Cooper, Alan, Wood, Jamie, Weyrich, Laura S., School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: ancient DNA; Moa; Dinornithiformes; Adzebill; Aptornis; paleoecology; coprolites; New Zealand; Research by Publication; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106723; https://doi.org/10.4225/55/598aad60ddb23

As a direct result of human activity and other environmental changes, considerable ecological changes and species extinctions have occurred on most terrestrial environments during the last 50,000 years. Therefore, correctly interpreting naturally occurring biogeography or ecology is limited without...