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No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

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No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

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No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2021-05, Vol.118 (20), p.1-8

Language

English

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Contents

The arrival of modern humans into previously unoccupied island ecosystems is closely linked to widespread extinction, and a key reason cited for Pleistocene megafauna extinction is anthropogenic overhunting. A common assumption based on late Holocene records is that humans always negatively impact insular biotas, which requires an extrapolation of...

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No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8157961

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8157961

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.2023005118

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