Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Massive prehistoric bird extinction linked to human colonization

Knoxville TN (SPX) Apr 03, 2013



Research by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville professor has found that about a thousand bird species became extinct following human colonization.

Research by Alison Boyer, a research assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology, and an international team studied the extinction rates of nonperching land birds in the Pacific Islands from 700 to 3,500 years ago. Some of the bird