HAWAII'S COMPREHENSIVE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION STRATEGY
HAWAII'S COMPREHENSIVE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION STRATEGY
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夏威夷全面的野生动物保护战略
DOI：
10.1126/science.217.4560.633
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发表时间：
2005
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
Effective October
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Effective October
自1971年以来，从夏威夷群岛收集的数千种鸟骨化石中，至少有39种陆地鸟类的遗骸，这些鸟类在历史时期没有存活下来;这是以前在主要岛屿上发现的陆地鸟类特有物种数量的两倍多。在第四纪晚期的沉积物中发现了骨头;大多数是全新世的，许多是与波利尼西亚文化同时代的。鸟类物种的消失似乎是由于欧洲人到来之前人类对低地栖息地的掠夺和破坏。由于历史上已知的动物群和植物群的夏威夷群岛只代表一小部分的自然物种多样性，地理推断的自然过程的基础上，历史上已知的类群可能是误导或不正确的。
Thousands of fossil bird bones from the Hawaiian Islands collected since 1971 include remains of at least 39 species of land birds that are not known to have survived into the historic period; this more than doubles the number of endemic species of land birds previously known from the main islands. Bones were found in deposits of late Quaternary age; most are Holocene and many are contemporaneous with Polynesian culture. The loss of species of birds appears to be due to predation and destruction of lowland habitats by humans before the arrival of Europeans. Because the historically known fauna and flora of the Hawaiian Islands represent only a fraction of natural species diversity, biogeographical inferences about natural processes based only on historically known taxa may be misleading or incorrect.