Reconstructing colonization dynamics to establish how human activities transformed island biodiversity
S. Tomlinson, M. Lomolino, S. Haythorne, A. Anderson, J. Austin, S. C. Brown, G. Perry, J. Wilmshurst, J. Wood, D. A. Fordham
The paper develops a process-explicit method to reconstruct human colonization dynamics on islands, showing it can reveal how human activities transformed biodiversity in New Zealand.
bioRxiv · Feb 9, 2023Ecology