Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)

By Jamie R. Wood, Nicolas J. Rawlence, G. Rogers, J. Austin, T. Worthy, Alan Cooper. 2008

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Legacy of avian-dominated plant-herbivore systems in New Zealand (2010, background): “…1997; Worthy 1998a, b; Worthy & Holdaway 1993, 1994a, 1995, 1996), analyses of coprolites and gizzard contents (Horrocks et al. 2004; Wood 2007a; Wood et al. 2008), stable isotope analyses (e.g. Hawke et al. 1999; Worthy & Holdaway 2002: 212–215; Holdaway et al. 2007), and the development of…”
Impacts of introduced deer and extinct moa on New Zealand ecosystems (2010, background): “Recent studies of gizzard contents (Wood 2007) and especially coprolites (Horrocks et al. 2004; Wood et al. 2008) have shown the moa taxa to have a much broader diet than previously thought (Lee et al. 2010).”
Twenty-first century advances in knowledge of the biology of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes): a new morphological analysis and moa diagnoses revised (2012, background): “In the first contribution of an ongoing research programme, Wood et al. (2008b) analysed 116 coprolites, which were referred to four moa species (Dinornis robustus, Megalapteryx didinus, Pachyornis elephantopus and Euryapteryx curtus), based on analysis of endogenous ancient DNA.”
Non-indigenous ungulates as a threat to biodiversity (2009, background): “the feeding ecology of the moa was substantially different to that of introduced ungulates (Wood et al., 2008), making plant species adapted to ratites particularly vulnerable to the latter (Bond, Lee & Craine, 2004).”