Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents

By A. Barnosky, P. Koch, R. Feranec, S. Wing, Alan B. Shabel. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology

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A test of Sporormiella representation as a predictor of megaherbivore presence and abundance (2009, background): “1a, b) recovered from lake sediments have been suggested to offer a proxy measure of megaherbivore presence and abundance in paleoenvironments (Davis, 1984; Burney et al., 2003; Barnosky et al., 2004; Robinson et al., 2005).”
Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers (2008, background): “At least one major plant-species extinction occurred during a period bracketing the YDE (Jackson and Weng, 1999), and North American megafaunal extinctions are concentrated within that same lateglacial period (Barnosky et al., 2004).”
Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions on the continents: a short review (2015, background): “Combined hypothesis Since the above hypotheses appear inadequate to explain all the facts, a number of authors (e.g. Stuart, 1991, 1999; Barnosky et al., 2004; Koch and Barnosky, 2006; Nikolskiy et al., 2011) have suggested a combination of ‘overkill’ and environmental change, in which extinctions…”
SCALE AND HIERARCHY IN MACROEVOLUTION (2007, background): “…A B L O N S K I : S C A L E A N D H I E R A R C H Y 89 distributions of the tetrapod faunas on all continents, even Africa, have been significantly truncated since the Pleistocene heyday of mammoths, mastodons and ground sloths (see Barnosky et al. 2004; Lyons et al. 2004, and references therein).”
Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration (2017, neutral): “In such instances, disentangling the contributions of environmental and anthropogenic drivers of island extinctions can prove as complex as it has been for continents (e.g. Barnosky et al. 2004).”
Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown (2012, background): “The relative roles of human hunting versus climatic changes in driving megafauna extinctions have been hotly debated (32), but it is now becoming accepted that, although climate may have contributed to preempt the conditions for the megafauna decline, humans played a major role in accelerating extin”
Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis: Recent Applications and Future Challenges (2007, background): “A central difficulty in applying these models is demonstrating a close cause-andeffect relationship between environmental and the proposed faunal changes (e.g., Barnosky et al. 2004).”
Did Humans Cause the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Mammalian Extinctions in South America in a Context of Shrinking Open Areas? (2009, background): “No megamammal survived in South America and the only relatively large mammals that avoided extinction are inhabitants of areas of relatively diffi cult access for humans, such as (1) forests and cerrados (tapirs, Tapirus terrestris; large armadillos, Priodontes giganteus; peccaries, Catagonus wagner”
Characteristics of Pleistocene megafauna extinctions in Southeast Asia (2007, background): “Equus is also one genus thought to have been hunted to extinction by early Clovis hunters in North America (Martin, 1984), as it coincides with the colonisation of the Americas by humans (Barnosky et al., 2004).”
Extinction chronology of the cave lion Panthera spelaea (2011, background): “However, European Pleistocene cave lions are genetically closest to sub-Saharan P. leo clades, not to the ‘northern’ P. leo from N. Africa and India (Barnett et al., 2006).”
Extinction chronology and palaeobiology of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) (2009, background): “In northern Eurasia, these extinctions were staggered over tens of millennia, contrasting with an apparently much sharper pulse of extinctions in North America (Stuart 1991, 1999; Martin & Steadman 1999; Barnosky et al. 2004).”