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Rapid megafaunal extinction following human arrival throughout the New World

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2013

Authors

Johnson, Christopher N.
Bradshaw, Corey J A
Cooper, Alan
Gillespie, Richard
Brook, Barry W

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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

Lima-Ribeiro and Diniz-Filho (2013) present a new compilation and analysis of the chronologies of human arrival and megafaunal extinction throughout the Americas. They find that in many places megafauna were apparently extinct before humans arrived; in ma

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Keywords: anthropogenic effect; chronology; coexistence; extinction; fauna; fossil; human settlement; paleontology

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74848

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ANU Research Publications

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Quaternary International

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Journal article

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DOI

10.1016/j.quaint.2013.06.022

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2037-12-31

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