Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents

By S. K. Lyons, F. Smith, James H. Brown. 2004

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• Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa (2014, background): “The apparently anomalous survival of Africa's large mammals is thought by some to reflect long-term co-evolution of human predators and their prey (Martin, 1984; Lyons et al., 2004).”
• Extinction patterns in the avifauna of the Hawaiian islands (2008, background): “On every other island and continent examined so far, similar size-selective extinctions have followed human colonization (Alcover et al ., 1999; Burney, 1999; Roberts et al ., 2001; Roff & Roff, 2003; Duncan & Blackburn, 2004; Lyons et al ., 2004).”
• Small mammal responses to environmental change: integrating past and present dynamics (2014, background): “Ultimately, such population-level changes are manifest as shifts in the occurrence and abundance of species across the landscape, and have been captured over both paleontological and neontological timescales (Hadly 1996; Lyons et al. 2004; Moritz et al. 2008; Thibault et al. 2010).”
• Biodiversity and extinction (2007, unknown): “…were the two sets of events, whether humans could have driven these species to extinction, whether they actually did so and, if so, how (eg, Martin, 2001; Roberts et al., 2001; Brook and Bowman, 2002; 2004; Barnosky et al., 2004; Cardillo et al., 2004; Lyons et al., 2004; Miller et al., 2005).”
• Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “This selection has resulted in skewed body mass distributions between extinct and extant mammals (Dirzo et al. 2014, Lyons et al. 2004) (Figure 3) and is likely a partial cause of historical reductions in body size of the mammal assemblages in Egypt (Yeakel et al. 2014) and China (Turvey et al.…”
• Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean (2015, background): “As a result, extant globalmarine faunal assemblages remain todaymore Pleistocene-like, at least with respect to species composition, than terrestrial fauna.”
• Linking Top-Down Forces to the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions (2010, background): “A survey of the association between mammal body size and the current threat of human hunting showed that large-bodied mammals are hunted significantly more than small-bodied species (Lyons et al. 2004).”
• 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).”
• Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions on the continents: a short review (2015, background): “However, they were also substantial in northern Eurasia (Palaearctic Ecoregion).”
• Did Humans Cause the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Mammalian Extinctions in South America in a Context of Shrinking Open Areas? (2009, background): “Lyons et al. (2004) analyzed the presently threatened and endangered mammals and found that those mammals menaced by human hunting were significantly larger than those subject to different extinction pressures.”
• Late Quaternary Extinctions: State of the Debate (2006, background): “West Nile virus has not yet led to extinctions, and if they do occur, they are highly unlikely to show the phylogenetic diversity and strong size-bias of the LQE (Lyons et al. 2004b).”