Gillespie, Richard2015-12-100277-3791http://hdl.handle.net/1885/39712Australia 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 contentionKeywords: 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; Australi200810.1016/j.quascirev.2008.09.0072016-02-24