Subsistence practices, past biodiversity, and anthropogenic impacts revealed by New Zealand-wide ancient DNA survey

Using fossil records to inform reintroduction of the kakapo as a refugee species

(2018) Pia E. Lentini et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Full Mitogenomes in the Critically Endangered Kākāpō Reveal Major Post-Glacial and Anthropogenic Effects on Neutral Genetic Diversity

(2018) Nicolas Dussex et al.   Genes

Did interaction between human pressure and Little Ice Age drive biological turnover in New Zealand?

(2017) Jonathan M. Waters et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Changing perspectives upon Māori colonisation voyaging

(2017) Atholl Anderson   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND

Testing species limits of New Zealand’s leiopelmatid frogs through morphometric analyses

(2017) Luke J Easton et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Ecosystem biomonitoring with eDNA: metabarcoding across the tree of life in a tropical marine environment

(2017) Michael Stat et al.   Scientific Reports

European Colonization, Not Polynesian Arrival, Impacted Population Size and Genetic Diversity in the Critically Endangered New Zealand Kākāpō

(2016) Laura M. Bergner et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Myth or relict: Does ancient DNA detect the enigmatic Upland seal?

(2016) Alexander T. Salis et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

(2016) Frédérik Saltré et al.   Nature Communications

DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago

(2016) Frederik Valeur Seersholm et al.   Nature Communications

obitools: aunix-inspired software package for DNA metabarcoding

(2015) Frédéric Boyer et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Ancient and Contemporary DNA Reveal a Pre-Human Decline but No Population Bottleneck Associated with Recent Human Persecution in the Kea (Nestor notabilis)

(2015) Nicolas Dussex et al.   PLoS One

A critical evaluation of how ancient DNA bulk bone metabarcoding complements traditional morphological analysis of fossil assemblages

(2015) Alicia C. Grealy et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions on the continents: a short review

(2014) Anthony John Stuart   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Extinction and recolonization of coastal megafauna following human arrival in New Zealand

(2014) C. J. Collins 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

An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa

(2014) Richard N. Holdaway et al.   Nature Communications

Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments

(2013) J. Dabney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Scrapheap Challenge: A novel bulk-bone metabarcoding method to investigate ancient DNA in faunal assemblages

(2013) Dáithí C. Murray et al.   Scientific Reports

Pre-European Maori exploitation of marine resources in two New Zealand case study areas: species range and temporal change

(2011) I Smith   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

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

Relict or colonizer? Extinction and range expansion of penguins in southern New Zealand

(2008) S. Boessenkool et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

(2008) Heinz Wanner et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS