The red-billed leiothrix is a non-native species in Hawaii Jason Gleditsch
Non-native birds are replacing Hawaii’s endemic species, adapting to new environments at a blistering pace of evolution.
In the Hawaiian Islands, most native fruit-eating birds have gone extinct and been replaced by introduced counterparts. On the island of O’ahu, seed dispersal through fruit consumption is now mostly carried out by non-native species.
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Jason Gleditsch, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his colleagues have been studying how these changes have affected the island. They…
