Avifaunal Extinctions, Vegetation Change, and Polynesian Impacts in Prehistoric Hawai`i

By J. S. Athens, H. David Toggle, J. Ward, D. Welch. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Geography, Planning and Development

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In Ecology

1. A. Shiels
2. D. Drake
3. D. Towns
4. Terry L. Hunt
5. M. Nogales
6. G. Harper
7. N. Bunbury
8. I. Atkinson

In Geography, Planning and Development

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2. A. Shiels
3. D. Towns
4. Terry L. Hunt
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6. G. Harper
7. N. Bunbury
8. P. Banks

Citations in the corpus

• A review on the effects of alien rodents in the Balearic (Western Mediterranean Sea) and Canary Islands (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) (2009, result): “In other oceanic islands, rats (R. exulans and R. rattus) have been reported to limit plant recruitment (New Zealand, Campbell 1978; Hawaii, Cuddihy and T a b le 2 S u m m ar y o n th e ef fe ct s o f p re d at io n b y ra ts o n la u re l fo re st tr ee sp ec ie s an d th ei r re p ro d u ct iv e s”
• Are introduced rats (Rattus rattus) both seed predators and dispersers in Hawaii? (2011, background): “Black rats and Pacific rats are significant predators of numerous native species in Hawaii, including rare and endangered birds (VanderWerf 2001), snails (Hadfield et al. 1993), arthropods (Cole et al. 2000) and plants (Athens et al. 2002; Pérez et al. 2008).”
• The impacts of rats on the endangered native flora of French Polynesia (Pacific Islands): drivers of plant extinction or coup de grâce species? (2009, background): “Because rodents initially arrived on islands lacking predators, they might have attained relatively high population densities (Athens et al. 2002).”
• Paleoecology and “inter‐situ” restoration on Kaua'i, Hawai'i (2007, background): “Recent research employing accelerator mass spectrometer 14C dating of materials least likely to be contaminated with old carbon, such as plant macrofossils and purified bone collagen, support the later arrival scenarios, hardly more than 1000 years ago (Athens et al. 2002; Burney and Burney 2003).”
• Invasive rats on tropical islands: Their population biology and impacts on native species (2015, background): “…can alter the composition of native forest, which is thought to have led to total forest collapse through continuous predation of native seed banks (Athens et al., 2002; Hunt, 2006; Athens, 2009), through preferential predation of seeds, by killing palms through eating the growing tips or seeds…”
• Invasive rodents on islands: integrating historical and contemporary ecology (2009, background): “For us this contrast came into focus when Stephen Athens (Athens et al. 2002; see Athens 2008) reported findings from his integrated palaeoecological and archaeological research on the Ewa Plain of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.”
• A review of the evidence for potential impacts of black rats (Rattus rattus) on wildlife and humans in Australia (2012, background): “Several studies have suggested that black rats have disrupted such plant–fauna relationships (Athens et al. 2002; Delgado García 2002; Kelly et al. 2006; see also Kuschel and Worthy 1996; Traveset et al. 2009), although direct evidence for black rats as the agent of disruption is often lacking.”
• Have the Harmful Effects of Introduced Rats on Islands been Exaggerated? (2006, background): “Using similar evidence, Athens et al. (2002) argued that predation of birds by Pacific rats was rare, and attributed extinctions of lowland forest birds in Hawaii to the indirect effects of rats causing extensive forest modification.”
• Detecting the initial impact of humans and introduced species on island environments in Remote Oceania using palaeoecology (2009, background): “For example, Colocasia pollen has been identified from a number of palaeoecological records from sites within or directly adjacent to historically abandoned or active agricultural areas in the Hawaiian Islands (e.g. Athens and Ward 1993).”
• The rat and the octopus: initial human colonization and the prehistoric introduction of domestic animals to Remote Oceania (2009, background): “ Athens et al. 2002; Burney and Burney 2003; Kennett et al. 2006) and the early dates for rat introduction have been discredited (Anderson 2000a; Wilmshurst and Higham 2004).”