Late Quaternary Extinctions: State of the Debate

By P. Koch, A. Barnosky. 2006

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Paleontology

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Combination of humans, climate, and vegetation change triggered Late Quaternary megafauna extinction in the Última Esperanza region, southern Patagonia, Chile (2016, background): “Early View (EV): 1-EV chronology of extinction roughly coincided with major climatic changes that occurred during the Pleistocene – Holocene transition and also with the fi rst arrival of humans into the South American continent (Koch and Barnosky 2006).”
Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals I: estimates from present-day communities (2010, background): “Part of the reason may be the large-mammal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene (Koch and Barnosky, 2006).”
Climate refugia of snow leopards in High Asia (2016, background): “…history,most recently in the glacial-interglacial cycles of the late Quaternary, which played an important role in the extinction of many megafauna species, such as the wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus) (Cooper et al., 2015; Koch and Barnosky, 2006).”
Extinction chronology of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis in the context of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in northern Eurasia (2012, background): “…Lister, 2007), contrasting with North America where, based on available radiocarbon evidence, many or most extinctions seem to have occurred in the Lateglacial, perhaps within less than one thousand years (e.g. Martin and Steadman, 1999; Barnosky et al. 2004; Koch and Barnosky, 2006; Haynes, 2010).”
Pleistocene Megafauna From Eastern Beringia: Paleoecological And Paleoenvironmental Interpretations Of Stable Carbon And Nitrogen Isotope And Radiocarbon Records (vol 261, Pg 30, 2008) (2008, background): “They cite as evidence the lack of synchrony in the timing of extinction among megafaunal species, and the magnitude of ecosystem change (e.g. steppe-tundra to boreal forest) in Beringia (Koch and Barnosky, 2006).”
Humans and Scavengers: The Evolution of Interactions and Ecosystem Services (2014, background): “Following megafaunal massive extinctions (around 50,000 years ago; Koch and Barnosky 2006), which were most probably precipitated by humans, condors were relegated to coastal areas and had to focus on the corpses of marine mammals.”
Extinction chronology of the cave lion Panthera spelaea (2011, background): “They thus form part of the major global episode of megafaunal extinctions that occurred within the last GlacialeInterglacial cycle (Martin and Steadman, 1999; Barnosky et al., 2004; Koch and Barnosky, 2006).”
Ice-age megafauna in Arctic Alaska: extinction, invasion, survival (2013, background): “The main causes of habitat loss were climate changes, human activities, or a combination of both (Koch and Barnosky, 2006).”
Historic and prehistoric human‐driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns (2015, background): “We expect the largest differences for larger animals because both the Late Pleistocene extinctions and the later range contractions have been size selective (Koch & Barnosky, 2006; Ripple et al., 2014).”
The Concept of the Anthropocene (2017, background): “There has been much discussion about the relative influence of late Pleistocene climate change versus human hunting, especially in Europe where there was a drawn-out decline in climate, and in North America, where the climate change is closely coincident with first human arrival (69, 70).”
The impact of climate change on large mammal distribution and extinction: Evidence from the last glacial/interglacial transition (2008, neutral): “Pending further evidence, it is plausible to regard such conjunctions not as ‘problems’ preventing us from identifying one of the two factors as causal, but as evidence in favour of a combined model whereby species only become extinct when subjected simultaneously to both climatic and human pressure”
New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya (2012, positive): “In the global context, although the magnitude of African large mammal extinctions over the last 100,000 years is considered small in terms of the number of taxa lost (Barnosky et al., 2004; Koch and Barnosky, 2006), the extinctions dramatically reconfigured the equatorial East African large mammal c”