Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

Global megafaunal extinctions took place in the late Quaternary, yet the relative impact of climate and humans in the faunal collapse is unclear. Here, the authors show that megafaunal extinctions in Australia were independent of climate variability and took place approximately 13,500 years after hu...

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Main Authors: Frédérik Saltré, Marta Rodríguez-Rey, Barry W. Brook, Christopher N Johnson, Chris S. M. Turney, John Alroy, Alan Cooper, Nicholas Beeton, Michael I. Bird, Damien A. Fordham, Richard Gillespie, Salvador Herrando-Pérez, Zenobia Jacobs, Gifford H. Miller, David Nogués-Bravo, Gavin J. Prideaux, Richard G. Roberts, Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10511

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