Lost land of the dodo : an ecological history of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues
Uninhabited by humans, the Mascarene Islands of the Indian Ocean were once home to an extraordinary range of birds and reptiles, most famously, dodos. But the discovery of the three isolated islands in the 1500s, and their colonization in the 1600s led to dramatic ecological changes. The dodo became extinct on its home island of Mauritius within several decades, and over the next 150 years most native vertebrates suffered the same fate. This book provides the ecological history of the Mascarene Islands as well as the specific story of each extinct vertebrate, accompanied by color illustrations
Print Book, English, 2008
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008