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Coprolites reveal ecological interactions lost with the extinction of New Zealand birds by Boast, Alexander P., Weyrich, Laura S., Wood, Jamie R., Metcalf, Jessica L., Knight, Rob, Cooper, Alan

“…Over the past 50,000 y, biotic extinctions and declines have left a legacy of vacant niches and broken ecological interactions across global terrestrial…”
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Mitochondrial Genomes from New Zealand’s Extinct Adzebills (Aves: Aptornithidae: Aptornis) Support a Sister-Taxon Relationship with the Afro-Madagascan Sarothruridae by Boast, Alexander, Chapman, Brendan, Herrera, Michael, Worthy, Trevor, Scofield, R., Tennyson, Alan, Houde, Peter, Bunce, Michael, Cooper, Alan, Mitchell, Kieren

“…The recently extinct New Zealand adzebills (Aptornithidae, Aptornis spp.) were an enigmatic group of large flightless birds that have long eluded precise…”
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Ancient and modern scats record broken ecological interactions and a decline in dietary breadth of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot (Strigops habroptilus) by Boast, Alexander P., Wood, Jamie R., Bolstridge, Nicola, Perry, George L. W., Wilmshurst, Janet M.

“…Threatened animal taxa are often absent from most of their original habitats, meaning their ecological niche cannot be fully captured by contemporary data…”
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