KIN 4520 Chapter : Lect 5 Psych Well Being
15 Mar 2019
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Prehistoric extinctions of pacific island birds - biodiversity meets zooarchaeology. This journal article focuses the extinction of pacific island, marquesas, birds, mainly land birds with a majority of flightless rails 3,000 to 69 years before present. The article stresses that the extinction of these animals happened as a result of the impact of prehistoric human settlement. Forest clearing is one of the major factors caused by human settlement that is responsible for the mass extinction and or extant species along the pacific islands. Soil erosion, a by-product of clear cutting, is also responsible for detrimental to permanent changes in landscapes or ranges where these extinct species once lived. Due to these massive changes in landscapes, other species such as certain lizards and bats became extinct. This also eliminated nesting sites for burrowing seabirds. One major element about this article is that all the discussed extinct species were studied from a paleontological approach.
