Abstracting the Landscape: The Artistry of Landscape Architect A. E. Bye

Rainey, Reuben M.

doi:10.3368/lj.11.1.96

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“…When analyzed by foraging height, the losses were acute for ground-dwelling species (7 to 0), reflecting predation from humans, rats, dogs, and pigs. The natural means of nollination or seed disnersal for certain Polynesian forest trees probably has suffered through the loss of so many frugivorous and nectarivorous birds (35) and pteropodid bats (40). As in the Neotropics (41), the future of Polynesian forests is threatened because of vertebrate extinctions.…”

Section: The Polynesian Heartlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prehistoric Extinctions of Pacific Island Birds: Biodiversity Meets Zooarchaeology

Steadman

1995

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On tropical Pacific islands, a human-caused "biodiversity crisis" began thousands of years ago and has nearly run its course. Bones identified from archaeological sites show that most species of land birds and populations of seabirds on those islands were exterminated by prehistoric human activities. The loss of birdlife in the tropical Pacific may exceed 2000 species (a majority of which were species of flightless rails) and thus represents a 20 percent worldwide reduction in the number of species of birds. The current global extinction crisis therefore has historic precedent.

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Section: The Polynesian Heartlandmentioning

confidence: 99%