Megafaunal extinction in the late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis

By S. Wroe, Judith H. Field, R. Fullagar, Lars S. Jermin. 2004

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology

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In Anthropology

1. P. Koch
2. A. Barnosky
3. Daniel T. Blumstein
4. Julien Louys
5. A. Stuart
6. A. Lister
7. J. Faith
8. D. Woodruff

In Atmospheric Science

1. A. Barnosky
2. P. Koch
3. D. Curnoe
4. Daniel T. Blumstein
5. Hao-wen Tong
6. Julien Louys

In Paleontology

1. A. Barnosky
2. P. Koch
3. D. Curnoe
4. Daniel T. Blumstein
5. Hao-wen Tong
6. Julien Louys
7. A. Stuart
8. A. Lister

Citations in the corpus

• Evidence of Invasive Felis silvestris Predation on Propithecus verreauxi at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar (2008, background): “On the basis of skull length, Cryptoprocta spelea weighed ca. ≥20 kg (Wroe et al. 2004).”
• Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear : how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds (2006, background): “Previous hypotheses have focused on the observation that larger species are the target of human hunters (Owens & Bennett 2000; but see Wroe et al. 2004) and the inevitable metabolic cost and smaller population sizes associated with large body size (e.g. Van Valkenburgh et al. 2004).”
• Late Quaternary Extinctions: State of the Debate (2006, background): “The efficacy of the tool kit carried by early Australians is a greater question (Wroe et al. 2004).”
• The Multipredator Hypothesis and the Evolutionary Persistence of Antipredator Behavior (2006, background): “However, the multipredator hypothesis would predict that continental species would not be entirely predator-naı̈ve because they evolved with a remarkable variety of avian, mammalian, and in some cases reptilian predators (e.g. Wroe 1999; Flannery 2001; Wroe et al. 2002, 2004).”
• Characteristics of Pleistocene megafauna extinctions in Southeast Asia (2007, methodology): “We decided to restrict this analysis to five orders of (mostly) large bodied taxa (Table 1) owing to an often arbitrary and subjective application of the term “megafauna” (see Marshall, 1984; Wroe et al., 2004), combined with a scarcity of papers dealing with body mass estimates for extinct species ”