Updating Martin's global extinction model

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Authors

Gillespie, Richard

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

Australia has been cited as a weak link in anthropogenic models of megafauna extinction, but recent work suggests instead that the evidence for rapid extinction shortly after human arrival is robust. The global model is revisited, based on the contention

Keywords

Keywords: Climatology; Australia; Global models; Late Pleistocene; Megafauna; New zealand; North America; Weak links; Climate change; chronology; climate change; ecological modeling; extinction; human settlement; island; Pleistocene; refugium; Australasia; Australi

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/39712

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Quaternary Science Reviews

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.007

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2037-12-31

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