Newly-discovered subfossils in the remote Marquesas Islands reveal the biological splendor that greeted Polynesian explorers
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265224
Article Title: Lost bioscapes: Floristic and arthropod diversity coincident with 12th century Polynesian settlement, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
Author Countries: New Zealand, Australia
Funding: Archaeological excavations, sample collection, 14C dating and some specialised analyses were supported by University of Auckland Faculty of Arts Research Development Fund [Grant no. 3700147 to MSA], AMS analyses by the Australian Institute of Nuclear Sciences & Engineering Ltd. ( https://www.ainse.edu.au ) [Grant nos. 06/002, 07/001, and 09/005 to MSA] and the arthropod and botanical analyses by an Australian Research Council DECRA ( https://www.arc.gov.au ) [Grant no. DE130101453 to NP]. MSA received support funding from New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission, Te Pūnaha Matatini, Centre of Research Excellence for Complex Systems ( https://www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz ) Grant no. UOA 9167-3705716. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Lost bioscapes: Floristic and arthropod diversity coincident with 12th century Polynesian settlement, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands
30-Mar-2022
The authors have no competing interests.