DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2013368117
论文题名: Bird populations and species lost to Late Quaternary environmental change and human impact in the Bahamas
作者: Steadman D.W. ; Franklin J.
刊名: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 0027-8424
出版年: 2020
卷: 117, 期: 43 起始页码: 26833
结束页码: 26841
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Extinction
; Human impacts
; Island biogeography
; Landbirds
; Pleistocene-to-Holocene transition
Scopus关键词: article
; Bahamas
; Bahamian
; biodiversity
; bird
; Cuba
; environmental change
; fauna
; fossil
; Holocene
; human
; human impact (environment)
; island biogeography
; Late Quaternary
; nonhuman
; North America
; resident
; Upper Pleistocene
英文摘要: Comparing distributional information derived from fossils with the modern distribution of species, we summarize the changing bird communities of the Bahamian Archipelago across deep ecological time. While our entire dataset consists of 7,600+ identified fossils from 32 sites on 15 islands (recording 137 species of resident and migratory birds), we focus on the landbirds from four islands with the best fossil records, three from the Late Pleistocene (∼25 to 10 ka [1,000 y ago]) and one from the Holocene (∼10 to 0 ka). The Late Pleistocene sites feature 51 resident species that have lost one or more Bahamian populations; 29 of these species do not occur in any of the younger Holocene sites (or in the Bahamas today). Of these 29 species, 17 have their closest affinities to species now or formerly living in Cuba and/or North America. A set of 27 species of landbirds, most of them extant somewhere today, was more widespread in the Bahamas in the prehistoric Holocene (∼10 to 0.5 ka) than they are today; 16 of these 27 species were recorded as Pleistocene fossils as well. No single site adequately captures the entire landbird fauna of the combined focal islands. Information from all sites is required to assess changes in Bahamian biodiversity (including endemism) since the Late Pleistocene. The Bahamian islands are smaller, flatter, lower, and more biotically depauperate than the Greater Antilles, resulting in more vulnerable bird communities. © 2020 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/163977
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作者单位: Steadman, D.W., Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States; Franklin, J., Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, United States
Recommended Citation:
Steadman D.W.,Franklin J.. Bird populations and species lost to Late Quaternary environmental change and human impact in the Bahamas[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,2020-01-01,117(43)