List of works - David W. Steadman

A New Species of Extinct Parrot (Psittacidae: Eclectus ) from Tonga and Vanuatu, South Pacific

scientific article (publication date: 2006)

A New Species of Porphyrio (Aves, Rallidae) from Archaeological Sites in the Marquesas islands ⬇️

scientific article published in 1988

A Prehistoric, Noncultural Vertebrate Assemblage from Tutuila, American Samoa

scientific article published in 2004

A new extinct species of Snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Gallinago) from the West Indies

scientific article

A new genus and species of pigeon (Aves, Columbidae) from the Kingdom of Tonga, with an evaluation of hindlimb osteology of columbids from Oceania

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

A new species of Woodcock (Aves: Scolopacidae: Scolopax) from Hispaniola, West Indies

scientific article (publication date: 14 October 2015)

A new species of swiftlet (Aves: Apodidae) from the late Quaternary of Mangaia, Cook Islands, Oceania

article

A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history

scientific article

A preliminary survey of the vertebrates of Cabarita Island, St. Mary Parish, Jamaica

scientific article published in 1983

Ancient DNA and high-resolution chronometry reveal a long-term human role in the historical diversity and biogeography of the Bahamian hutia

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird (Caracara creightoni) in a phylogenetic context

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

Another new species of flightless Rail (Aves: Rallidae: Rallus) from Abaco, The Bahamas

scientific article

Are transposable element insertions homoplasy free?: an examination using the avian tree of life

scientific article

Asynchronous extinction of late Quaternary sloths on continents and islands

scientific article

Biogeography and Prehistoric Exploitation of Birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia ⬇️

scientific article published in 1994

Biogeography and Prehistoric Exploitation of Birds in the Mussau Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

scholarly article by David W. Steadman & Patrick V. Kirch published March 1998 in Emu

Bird populations and species lost to Late Quaternary environmental change and human impact in the Bahamas

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

California Condor Associated with Spruce-Jack Pine Woodland in the Late Pleistocene of New York

Cranial Polymorphism and Systematics of Miocene and Living Alligator in North America

scientific article published in 2016

Dispersal limitation, speciation, environmental filtering and niche differentiation influence forest tree communities in West Polynesia

Earliest Mexican Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in the Maya Region: implications for pre-Hispanic animal trade and the timing of turkey domestication

scientific article published in 2012

Exceptionally well preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas

scientific article

Extinct and Extirpated Birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, Southern Cook Islands ⬇️

Extinction and biogeography of bats on 'Eua, Kingdom of Tonga ⬇️

scientific article published in 1995

Extinction and biogeography of birds on huahine, society islands, French polynesia

article

First Highly Stratified Prehistoric Vertebrate Sequence from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador ⬇️

scholarly article by David W. Steadman & Valerie Burke Deleon published 1999 in Pacific Science

Forest Plant and Bird Communities in the Lau Group, Fiji ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 29 December 2010)

Fossils reject climate change as the cause of extinction of Caribbean bats

scientific article

Holocene vertebrate fossils from Isla Floreana, Galápagos

scientific article published in 1986

Insular avian adaptations on two Neotropical continental islands ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: October 2012)

Late Pleistocene snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Abaco, The Bahamas

scholarly article by Jim I. Mead & David W. Steadman published December 2017 in Geobios

Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs Luis M. Chiappe Lawrence M. Witmer

scientific article published in 2003

Molecular phylogeny of Caribbean dipsadid (Xenodontinae: Alsophiini) snakes, including identification of the first record from the Cay Sal Bank, The Bahamas

scientific article (publication date: 9 October 2015)

Moving from modern toward post-modern science: comment on “An integrated assessment of the vascular plants of the Americas”

article

NEW SPECIES AND RECORDS OF BIRDS FROM PREHISTORIC SITES ON NIUE, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

article

New Behavioral, Ecological, and Biogeographic Data on the Avifauna of Rennell, Solomon Islands ⬇️

New Extinct Mekosuchine Crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific

scientific article (publication date: August 2002)

New Information on the Late Pleistocene Birds from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo León, Mexico

scientific article (publication date: August 1994)

New Species of Extinct Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Archaeological Sites in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from an Archaeological Site on Huahine, Society Islands

scholarly article by Jeremy J. Kirchman published in January 2006

New species of troupial (Icterus) and cowbird (Molothrus) from ice-age Peru

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Origin, paleoecology, and extirpation of bluebirds and crossbills in the Bahamas across the last glacial-interglacial transition

scientific article

Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2013)

Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds

scientific article

Pigeons and Doves: A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World

scientific article published in 2001

Predictable evolution toward flightlessness in volant island birds

scientific article (publication date: 26 April 2016)

Prehistoric Birds from Rurutu, Austral Islands, East Polynesia

scientific article published in April 2010

Prehistoric Butchery and Consumption of Birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific

scientific article published in June 2002

Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia: Excavations at Tangatatau Rockshelter, Mangaia, Cook Islands

article by Patrick V. Kirch et al published July 1995 in Archaeology in Oceania

Rails (Aves: Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric sites in the Kingdom of Tonga, including a description of a new species

scholarly article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 118 no. 2, June 2005

Rapid prehistoric extinction of iguanas and birds in Polynesia

scientific article

Recent archaeological findings at Qaranilaca Cave, Vanuabalavu Island, Fiji

scholarly article by Frank R. Thomas published in April 2004

Regional variation in Caribbean dry forest tree species composition

article

Relationships of Megaoryzomys curioi, an Extinct Cricetine Rodent (Muroidea: Muridae) from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador ⬇️

scholarly article by David W. Steadman & Clayton E. Ray published 1982 in Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology

Reply to Benkman: Hispaniolan crossbills formerly resided in the Bahamas. ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

South Pacific Iguanas: Human Impacts and a New Species

article

Status of Land Birds on Selected Islands in the Ha'apai Group, Kingdom of Tonga ⬇️

Subfossil Land Snails from Easter Island, Including Hotumatua anakenana, New Genus and Species (Pulmonata: Achatinellidae)1

article

TROPICAL MARSH AND SAVANNA OF THE LATE PLEISTOCENE IN NORTHEASTERN SONORA, MEXICO

The Lizards of Rarotonga and Mangaia, Cook Island Group, Oceania ⬇️

The bat community of Haiti and evidence for its long-term persistence at high elevations

scientific article

The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas

scholarly article published in The Auk, April 2018

The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands

scholarly article by Gregory K. Pregill & David W. Steadman published November 2009 in Diversity and Distributions

Tropical ancient DNA reveals relationships of the extinct Bahamian giant tortoise Chelonoidis alburyorum.

scientific article published in January 2017

Two New Species Of Parrots (Aves, Psittacidae) From Archaeological Sites In The Marquesas islands ⬇️

article published in 1987

Two New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia , Southern Cook Islands ⬇️

Upland bird communities on Santo, Vanuatu, southwest Pacific

scholarly article

Vertebrate community on an ice-age Caribbean island

scientific article

Vertebrate paleontology

article

List of works by David W. Steadman

A New Species of Extinct Parrot (Psittacidae: Eclectus ) from Tonga and Vanuatu, South Pacific

A New Species of Porphyrio (Aves, Rallidae) from Archaeological Sites in the Marquesas islands ⬇️

A Prehistoric, Noncultural Vertebrate Assemblage from Tutuila, American Samoa

A new extinct species of Snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Gallinago) from the West Indies

A new genus and species of pigeon (Aves, Columbidae) from the Kingdom of Tonga, with an evaluation of hindlimb osteology of columbids from Oceania

A new species of Woodcock (Aves: Scolopacidae: Scolopax) from Hispaniola, West Indies

A new species of swiftlet (Aves: Apodidae) from the late Quaternary of Mangaia, Cook Islands, Oceania

A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history

A preliminary survey of the vertebrates of Cabarita Island, St. Mary Parish, Jamaica

Ancient DNA and high-resolution chronometry reveal a long-term human role in the historical diversity and biogeography of the Bahamian hutia

Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird (Caracara creightoni) in a phylogenetic context

Another new species of flightless Rail (Aves: Rallidae: Rallus) from Abaco, The Bahamas

Are transposable element insertions homoplasy free?: an examination using the avian tree of life

Asynchronous extinction of late Quaternary sloths on continents and islands

Biogeography and Prehistoric Exploitation of Birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia ⬇️

Biogeography and Prehistoric Exploitation of Birds in the Mussau Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

Bird populations and species lost to Late Quaternary environmental change and human impact in the Bahamas

California Condor Associated with Spruce-Jack Pine Woodland in the Late Pleistocene of New York

Cranial Polymorphism and Systematics of Miocene and Living Alligator in North America

Dispersal limitation, speciation, environmental filtering and niche differentiation influence forest tree communities in West Polynesia

Earliest Mexican Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in the Maya Region: implications for pre-Hispanic animal trade and the timing of turkey domestication

Exceptionally well preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas

Extinct and Extirpated Birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, Southern Cook Islands ⬇️

Extinction and biogeography of bats on 'Eua, Kingdom of Tonga ⬇️

Extinction and biogeography of birds on huahine, society islands, French polynesia

First Highly Stratified Prehistoric Vertebrate Sequence from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador ⬇️

Forest Plant and Bird Communities in the Lau Group, Fiji ⬇️

Fossils reject climate change as the cause of extinction of Caribbean bats

Holocene vertebrate fossils from Isla Floreana, Galápagos

Insular avian adaptations on two Neotropical continental islands ⬇️

Late Pleistocene snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Abaco, The Bahamas

Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs Luis M. Chiappe Lawrence M. Witmer

Molecular phylogeny of Caribbean dipsadid (Xenodontinae: Alsophiini) snakes, including identification of the first record from the Cay Sal Bank, The Bahamas

Moving from modern toward post-modern science: comment on “An integrated assessment of the vascular plants of the Americas”

NEW SPECIES AND RECORDS OF BIRDS FROM PREHISTORIC SITES ON NIUE, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

New Behavioral, Ecological, and Biogeographic Data on the Avifauna of Rennell, Solomon Islands ⬇️

New Extinct Mekosuchine Crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific

New Information on the Late Pleistocene Birds from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo León, Mexico

New Species of Extinct Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Archaeological Sites in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from an Archaeological Site on Huahine, Society Islands

New species of troupial (Icterus) and cowbird (Molothrus) from ice-age Peru

Origin, paleoecology, and extirpation of bluebirds and crossbills in the Bahamas across the last glacial-interglacial transition

Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals

Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds

Pigeons and Doves: A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World

Predictable evolution toward flightlessness in volant island birds

Prehistoric Birds from Rurutu, Austral Islands, East Polynesia

Prehistoric Butchery and Consumption of Birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific

Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia: Excavations at Tangatatau Rockshelter, Mangaia, Cook Islands

Rails (Aves: Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric sites in the Kingdom of Tonga, including a description of a new species

Rapid prehistoric extinction of iguanas and birds in Polynesia

Recent archaeological findings at Qaranilaca Cave, Vanuabalavu Island, Fiji

Regional variation in Caribbean dry forest tree species composition

Relationships of Megaoryzomys curioi, an Extinct Cricetine Rodent (Muroidea: Muridae) from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador ⬇️

Reply to Benkman: Hispaniolan crossbills formerly resided in the Bahamas. ⬇️

South Pacific Iguanas: Human Impacts and a New Species

Status of Land Birds on Selected Islands in the Ha'apai Group, Kingdom of Tonga ⬇️

Subfossil Land Snails from Easter Island, Including Hotumatua anakenana, New Genus and Species (Pulmonata: Achatinellidae)1

TROPICAL MARSH AND SAVANNA OF THE LATE PLEISTOCENE IN NORTHEASTERN SONORA, MEXICO

The Lizards of Rarotonga and Mangaia, Cook Island Group, Oceania ⬇️

The bat community of Haiti and evidence for its long-term persistence at high elevations

The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas

The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands

Tropical ancient DNA reveals relationships of the extinct Bahamian giant tortoise Chelonoidis alburyorum.

Two New Species Of Parrots (Aves, Psittacidae) From Archaeological Sites In The Marquesas islands ⬇️

Two New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia , Southern Cook Islands ⬇️

Upland bird communities on Santo, Vanuatu, southwest Pacific

Vertebrate community on an ice-age Caribbean island

Vertebrate paleontology

Why Are There No Sea Snakes in the Atlantic?