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Flightless birds were once the largest and heaviest terrestrial fauna on many archipelagos around the world. Robust approaches for estimating their population parameters are essential for understanding prehistoric insular ecosystems and extinction processes. Body mass and population density are negatively related for extant flightless bird species, providing a method for quantifying densities and...
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Following the mid 15th century AD extinction of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) there was a ~400‐yr period when large herbivores were absent from New Zealand's terrestrial ecosystems. This ended with the introduction of mammalian herbivores by European settlers in the 19th century. For at least 40 yr researchers have speculated about how New Zealand's vegetation communities might have responded...
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