Did the climate changes cause the extinction of the Late Pleistocene gomphotheres in South America? [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba)A global wave of megafauna extinctions occurred between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, impacting numerous large continental mammals that are crucial to ecosystem dynamics.
Evelyn N.S. Cruz +2 more
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Ice Age megafauna rock art in the Colombian Amazon? [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Megafauna paintings have accompanied the earliest archaeological contexts across the continents, revealing a fundamental inter-relationship between early humans and megafauna during the global human expansion as unfamiliar landscapes were humanized and ...
Iriarte J +7 more
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Effects of global warming on ancient mammalian communities and their environments. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2009 Current global warming affects the composition and dynamics of mammalian communities and can increase extinction risk; however, long-term effects of warming on mammals are less understood.
DeSantis LR, Feranec RS, MacFadden BJ.
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Mexican fossil ground sloths - A case study for Late Pleistocene megafaunal turnover in the Mexican Corridor [PDF]
, 2020 Diese Dissertation ist Teil eines langjährigen deutsch-mexikanischen Forschungsprojektes über paläontologische und paläoanthropologische Funde aus den Unterwasserhöhlen im Bundesstaat Quintana Roo im Südosten Mexikos.
Stinnesbeck, Sarah R.
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Qualities of Successful Invasions: Examples from the Great American Biotic Interchange [PDF]
, 2021 A good understanding of the past can shed light on the patterns observed and mechanisms at work in the present day.As the climate continues to change in the present, we can look to the past to help determine how organisms might react to large scale ...
Jackson, Emily
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Estudios Geologicos, 2005 Nuevos materiales fósiles de Gomphotheriidae obtenidos recientemente, estimularon a los autores a estudiarlos y a revisar algunos otros restos de esta familia, que habían sido asignados, el año 2000, a Cuvieronius hyodon (Fischer).
D. Frassinetti, M. T. Alberdi
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Infomap Bioregions: Interactive mapping of biogeographical regions from species distributions [PDF]
, 2016 Biogeographical regions (bioregions) reveal how different sets of species are spatially grouped and therefore are important units for conservation, historical biogeography, ecology and evolution. Several methods have been developed to identify bioregions
Antonelli, Alexandre +4 more
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Paleoambiente de la Depresión Central de Chiapas, con base en isótopos estables de carbono y oxígeno
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 2018 Se infirió la dieta de tres ejemplares de caballo (Equus conversidens), cinco gonfoterios (Cuvieronius hyodon), un bisonte (Bison sp.), un mamut (Mammuthus columbi), un perezoso gigante (Eremotherium laurillardi) y un león americano (Panthera atrox ...
Víctor Adrián Pérez-Crespo +4 more
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Revista Geológica de América Central, 2016 de Costa Rica. Este hallazgo constituye la primera evidencia fósil de un mamífero terrestre que habitó la plataforma continental cuando esta era tierra seca durante la última máxima glacial en el Pleistoceno Tardío para América Central y la Región Caribe.
Laurito, César A. +2 more
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Extinct mammals from the Pleistocene Calama Basin (Second Region, Chile). New records and old collections [PDF]
, 2010 Se presentan los resultados del análisis taxonómico y tafonómico del registro de mamíferos fósiles depositados en el Museo de Historia Natural y Cultural del Desierto de Atacama.
López Mendoza, Patricio +4 more
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