Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

(2017) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   SCIENCE

Rewilding is the new Pandora’s box in conservation

(2016) David Nogués-Bravo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Introductions do not compensate for functional and phylogenetic losses following extinctions in insular bird assemblages

(2016) Fernando L. Sobral et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using palaeoecology to determine baseline ecological requirements and interaction networks for de-extinction candidate species

(2016) Jamie R. Wood et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Closing the gap: New data on the last documented Myotragus and the first human evidence on Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean Sea)

(2016) Pere Bover et al.   HOLOCENE

Changes in New Zealand forest plant communities following the prehistoric extinction of avian megaherbivores

(2016) Jamie R. Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Earliest hominin occupation of Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2016) Gerrit D. van den Bergh et al.   NATURE

Direct dating of Pleistocene stegodon from Timor Island, East Nusa Tenggara

(2016) Julien Louys et al.   PeerJ

Drivers of extinction: the case of Azorean beetles

(2015) Sofia Terzopoulou et al.   Biology Letters

Predator-Free New Zealand: Conservation Country

(2015) James C. Russell et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Reassembling a lost lowland carabid beetle assemblage (Coleoptera) from Kauai, Hawaiian Islands

(2015) James K. Liebherr et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Monitoring results from a decade of native plant translocations at Makauwahi Cave Reserve, Kaua`i

(2015) David A. Burney et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Direct Dating and Physico-Chemical Analyses Cast Doubts on the Coexistence of Humans and Dwarf Hippos in Cyprus

(2015) Antoine Zazzo et al.   PLoS One

Holocene landscape intervention and plant food production strategies in island and mainland Southeast Asia

(2014) C.O. Hunt et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area

(2014) Nick C. Davidson   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

A High-Resolution Chronology of Rapid Forest Transitions following Polynesian Arrival in New Zealand

(2014) David B. McWethy et al.   PLoS One

Radiocarbon evidence for the presence of mice on Madeira Island (North Atlantic) one millennium ago

(2014) J. C. Rando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A high-precision chronology for the rapid extinction of New Zealand moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)

(2014) George L.W. Perry et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Galápagos History, Restoration, and a Shifted Baseline

(2014) Mark B. Bush et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Avoiding (Re)extinction

(2014) B. A. Minteer et al.   SCIENCE

Reversing defaunation: Restoring species in a changing world

(2014) P. J. Seddon et al.   SCIENCE

Specimen collection: An essential tool

(2014) L. A. Rocha et al.   SCIENCE

Secondary extinctions of biodiversity

(2014) Jedediah F. Brodie et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Systematics, morphology, and ecological history of the Mascarene starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) with the description of a new genus and species from Mauritius

(2014) JULIAN PENDER HUME   ZOOTAXA

Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012

(2014) Belinda Arunarwati Margono et al.   Nature Climate Change

Using a surviving lineage of Madagascar’s vanished megafauna for ecological restoration

(2013) Miguel Pedrono et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Use of Pollen and Ancient DNA as Conservation Baselines for Offshore Islands in New Zealand

(2013) JANET M. WILMSHURST et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A Megafauna’s Microfauna: Gastrointestinal Parasites of New Zealand’s Extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

(2013) Jamie R. Wood et al.   PLoS One

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

(2013) R. P. Duncan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The large terrestrial carnivore guild in Quaternary Southeast Asia

(2013) Julien Louys   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Radiocarbon evidence for a prehistoric deliberate translocation: the weasel (Mustela nivalis) of Mallorca

(2012) Alejandro Valenzuela et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

A Lost Link between a Flightless Parrot and a Parasitic Plant and the Potential Role of Coprolites in Conservation Paleobiology

(2012) Jamie R. Wood et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The ecological impact of oceanic island colonization - a palaeoecological perspective from the Azores

(2012) Simon E. Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The effect of climate and environmental change on the megafaunal moa of New Zealand in the absence of humans

(2012) Nicolas J. Rawlence et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Explaining fire-driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of New Zealand's prehistory

(2011) George L. W. Perry et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

(2011) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

When is an invasive not an invasive? Macrofossil evidence of doubtful native plant species in the Galápagos Islands

(2010) Emily E. D. Coffey et al.   ECOLOGY

High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia

(2010) Janet M. Wilmshurst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Translocations of eight species of burrow-nesting seabirds (genera Pterodroma, Pelecanoides, Pachyptila and Puffinus: Family Procellariidae)

(2009) Colin M. Miskelly et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Pre-Neolithic wild boar management and introduction to Cyprus more than 11,400 years ago

(2009) J.-D. Vigne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological consequences of Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna

(2009) C.N. Johnson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

(2009) R. R. Dunn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Forgotten Megafauna

(2009) Dennis M. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

The rat and the octopus: initial human colonization and the prehistoric introduction of domestic animals to Remote Oceania

(2008) Atholl Anderson   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Rattus exulans and the catastrophic disappearance of Hawai’i’s native lowland forest

(2008) J. Stephen Athens   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Climate, people and faunal succession on Java, Indonesia: evidence from Song Gupuh

(2008) M.J. Morwood et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: The biogeography of avian extinctions on oceanic islands

(2008) Tim J. Karels et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

History of weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) translocation in New Zealand: lessons learned, islands as sanctuaries and the future

(2008) Corinne Watts et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Historical Mammal Extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Correlates with Introduced Infectious Disease

(2008) Kelly B. Wyatt et al.   PLoS One

Species invasions and extinction: The future of native biodiversity on islands

(2008) D. F. Sax et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

(2008) J. M. Wilmshurst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The late Quaternary decline and extinction of palms on oceanic Pacific islands

(2008) M PREBBLE et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Role of Endangered Species Reintroduction in Ecosystem Restoration: Tortoise–Cactus Interactions on Española Island, Galápagos

(2007) James P. Gibbs et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY