Biology textbooks describe the small changes in the beaks of the Galápagos finches as
exemplars of how birds evolve in response to environmental changes. However, recent …

ABSTRACT Olson, Storrs L., Gregory K. Pregill, and William B. Hilgartner. Studies on Fossil
and Extant Vertebrates from San Salvador (Watling's) Island, Bahamas. Smithsonian …

Background Faunal change is a basic and fundamental element in ecology, biogeography,
and conservation biology, yet vanishingly few detailed studies have documented such …

We provide an update to the fossil avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands based on
the identification of 3509 small bird bones recovered from fossil sites on Santa Rosa and …

With a range that covered most of northern Eurasia and parts of North America, the cave lion
(Panthera spelaea) was one of the most widespread carnivores of the Late Pleistocene …

As PART OF A LONG-TERM program to reconstrUct the natural distribution and diversity of
bird-life in the South Pacific (figure 14.1), I have sought bird bones from archaeological sites …

Numerous climate change effects on biodiversity have been anticipated and documented,
including extinctions, range shifts, phenological shifts, and breakdown of interactions in …

On the southern Caribbean island of Tobago, we excavated two archaeological deposits,
the preceramic (ca. 2900 years old) Milford 1 site (TOB-3) and the ceramic (ca. 1200 to 900 …

Recent estimates indicate that∼ 70% of the world's seabird populations have declined since
the 1950s due to human activities. However, for almost all bird populations, there is …

The nature of tree‐line habitats in the Andes has long been a contentious topic in the
ecological literature. Palynological studies suggest that a combination of anthropogenic and …