• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1101617
Corpus ID: 31211118

Avian Extinction and Mammalian Introductions on Oceanic Islands

@article{Blackburn2004AvianEA,
  title={Avian Extinction and Mammalian Introductions on Oceanic Islands},
  author={T. Blackburn and P. Cassey and R. Duncan and K. Evans and K. Gaston},
  journal={Science},
  year={2004},
  volume={305},
  pages={1955 - 1958}
}

T. Blackburn, P. Cassey, +2 authors K. Gaston

Published 2004

Biology, Medicine

Science

The arrival of humans on oceanic islands has precipitated a wave of extinctions among the islands' native birds. Nevertheless, the magnitude of this extinction event varies markedly between avifaunas. We show that the probability that a bird species has been extirpated from each of 220 oceanic islands is positively correlated with the number of exotic predatory mammal species established on those islands after European colonization and that the effect of these predators is greater on island… CONTINUE READING

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