The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity
@article{Andermann2020ThePA, title={The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity}, author={Tobias Andermann and S. Faurby and S. Turvey and A. Antonelli and D. Silvestro}, journal={Science Advances}, year={2020}, volume={6} }
Human driven extinctions of recent past pale in comparison to future predictions, as a major global extinction wave is unfolding. To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have affected biodiversity in the past. However, the extent of human involvement in species extinctions from the Late Pleistocene onward remains contentious. Here, we apply Bayesian models to the fossil record to estimate how mammalian extinction rates have changed over the past 126… CONTINUE READING
2 Citations
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 168 REFERENCES
Historic and prehistoric human-driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns
- Biology
- 2015
- 42
- PDF
The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene
- Biology, Medicine
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 2011
- 94
- PDF
Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 2011
- 382
- PDF
Robustness despite uncertainty: regional climate data reveal the dominant role of humans in explaining global extinctions of Late Quaternary megafauna
- Geography
- 2016
- 75
- PDF
Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change
- Geography, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 2014
- 238
- PDF
The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 2008
- 297
- PDF
The dynamics underlying avian extinction trajectories forecast a wave of extinctions
- Biology, Medicine
- Biology Letters
- 2019
- 11
Brain expansion in early hominins predicts carnivore extinctions in East Africa
- Geography, Medicine
- Ecology letters
- 2020
- 11