List of works - Richard Holdaway

A rich Pleistocene-Holocene avifaunal sequence from Te Waka #1: terrestrial fossil vertebrate faunas from inland Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand. Part 2 ⬇️

scholarly article

A spatio‐temporal model for the invasion of the New Zealand archipelago by the Pacific ratRattus exulans

article

A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact

article

An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa.

scientific article

Ancient DNA analyses of early archaeological sites in New Zealand reveal extreme exploitation of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) at all life stages

article

Ancient DNA chronology within sediment deposits: are paleobiological reconstructions possible and is DNA leaching a factor?

scientific article

Ancient DNA provides new insights into the evolutionary history of New Zealand's extinct giant eagle

scientific article published in January 2005

Archaeological avifauna of Harataonga, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand: implications for avian palaeontology, Maori prehistory, and archaeofaunal recovery techniques

article

Avifauna from the Emily Bay settlement site, Norfolk Island: a preliminary account

Cortical growth marks reveal extended juvenile development in New Zealand moa.

scientific article

Establishment and extinction of a population of South Georgian diving petrel(Pelecanoides georgicus)at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand, during the late Holocene

article

Evidence for magmatic carbon bias in C dating of the Taupo and other major eruptions

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 2010)

High-precision dating and ancient DNA profiling of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) eggshell documents a complex feature at Wairau Bar and refines the chronology of New Zealand settlement by Polynesians

article

Highly skewed sex ratios and biased fossil deposition of moa: ancient DNA provides new insight on New Zealand's extinct megafauna

article

Identification of microsatellites from an extinct moa species using high-throughput (454) sequence data.

scientific article

Juvenile Osprey Navigation during Trans-Oceanic Migration

scientific article

Late Holocene extinction of Finsch's duck(Chenonetta finschi),an endemic, possibly flightless, New Zealand duck

scientific article

Late Holocene extinction of the New Zealand owlet‐nightjarAegotheles novaezealandiae

scientific article

Merging ancient and modern DNA: extinct seabird taxon rediscovered in the North Tasman Sea

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2010)

Molecular and morphological analyses of avian eggshell excavated from a late thirteenth century earth oven

scholarly article

More than one way of being a moa: differences in leg bone robustness map divergent evolutionary trajectories in Dinornithidae and Emeidae (Dinornithiformes)

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Non-destructive sampling of ancient insect DNA

scientific article published in 2009

Nutrient sources for forest birds captured within an undisturbed petrel colony, and management implications

Optical dating of quartz sediments and accelerator mass spectrometry14C dating of bone gelatin and moa eggshell: A comparison of age estimates for non‐archaeological deposits in New Zealand

article

Postnatal ontogeny, population structure, and extinction of the giant moa Dinornis

scientific article

Profiling the dead: generating microsatellite data from fossil bones of extinct megafauna--protocols, problems, and prospects

scientific article (publication date: 31 January 2011)

Reply to 'Wiggle-match radiocarbon dating of the Taupo eruption'

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Straight as an arrow: humpback whales swim constant course tracks during long-distance migration

scientific article

Systematics and palaeobiology of Haast's eagle (Harpagornis moorei Haast, 1872) (Aves: Accipitridae) ⬇️

1991 doctoral thesis by Richard N. Holdaway at University of Canterbury

The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2012)

List of works by Richard Holdaway

A rich Pleistocene-Holocene avifaunal sequence from Te Waka #1: terrestrial fossil vertebrate faunas from inland Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand. Part 2 ⬇️

A spatio‐temporal model for the invasion of the New Zealand archipelago by the Pacific ratRattus exulans

A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact

An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa.

Ancient DNA analyses of early archaeological sites in New Zealand reveal extreme exploitation of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) at all life stages

Ancient DNA chronology within sediment deposits: are paleobiological reconstructions possible and is DNA leaching a factor?

Ancient DNA provides new insights into the evolutionary history of New Zealand's extinct giant eagle

Archaeological avifauna of Harataonga, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand: implications for avian palaeontology, Maori prehistory, and archaeofaunal recovery techniques

Avifauna from the Emily Bay settlement site, Norfolk Island: a preliminary account

Cortical growth marks reveal extended juvenile development in New Zealand moa.

Establishment and extinction of a population of South Georgian diving petrel(Pelecanoides georgicus)at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand, during the late Holocene

Evidence for magmatic carbon bias in C dating of the Taupo and other major eruptions

Extinct New Zealand megafauna were not in decline before human colonization

Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA

High-precision dating and ancient DNA profiling of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) eggshell documents a complex feature at Wairau Bar and refines the chronology of New Zealand settlement by Polynesians

Highly skewed sex ratios and biased fossil deposition of moa: ancient DNA provides new insight on New Zealand's extinct megafauna

Identification of microsatellites from an extinct moa species using high-throughput (454) sequence data.

Juvenile Osprey Navigation during Trans-Oceanic Migration

Late Holocene extinction of Finsch's duck(Chenonetta finschi),an endemic, possibly flightless, New Zealand duck

Late Holocene extinction of the New Zealand owlet‐nightjarAegotheles novaezealandiae

Merging ancient and modern DNA: extinct seabird taxon rediscovered in the North Tasman Sea

Molecular and morphological analyses of avian eggshell excavated from a late thirteenth century earth oven

More than one way of being a moa: differences in leg bone robustness map divergent evolutionary trajectories in Dinornithidae and Emeidae (Dinornithiformes)

Non-destructive sampling of ancient insect DNA

Nutrient sources for forest birds captured within an undisturbed petrel colony, and management implications

Optical dating of quartz sediments and accelerator mass spectrometry14C dating of bone gelatin and moa eggshell: A comparison of age estimates for non‐archaeological deposits in New Zealand

Postnatal ontogeny, population structure, and extinction of the giant moa Dinornis

Profiling the dead: generating microsatellite data from fossil bones of extinct megafauna--protocols, problems, and prospects

Reply to 'Wiggle-match radiocarbon dating of the Taupo eruption'

Straight as an arrow: humpback whales swim constant course tracks during long-distance migration

Systematics and palaeobiology of Haast's eagle (Harpagornis moorei Haast, 1872) (Aves: Accipitridae) ⬇️

The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils