Scientific Reports, 2022 People could have hunted Madagascar’s megafauna to extinction, particularly when introduced taxa and drought exacerbated the effects of predation. However, such explanations are difficult to test due to the scarcity of individual sites with unambiguous ...
Sean W. Hixon +8 more
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Incidental catches of pelagic megafauna by the EU pelagic fleet in the Mauritanian exclusive economic zone during the year 2001 : results extracted from the scientific observer program [PDF]
, 2003 The joint project between the Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research (RIVO) and the Mauritanian Institute for Oceanography and Fisheries Research (IMROP) has been initiated in 1998 in order to strengthen Mauritania’s capacity for research on stocks
Hofstede, R., ter
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Managing fisheries in a changing climate [PDF]
, 2004 No need to wait for more information: industrialized fishing is already wiping out ...
Myers, R. A., Worm, Boris
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The development of agriculture in the Americas: an ecological perspective
Ecosphere, 2010 Agriculture began independently in both North and South America ∼10,000 years before present (YBP), within a few thousand years of the arrival of humans in the Americas. This contrasts with the thousands of years that people were present in the old world
Christopher E. Doughty
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Wanted Dead or Alive? The Relative Value of Reef Sharks as a Fishery and an Ecotourism Asset in Palau [PDF]
, 2011 Over the last 20 years, ecotourism to view and interact with marine megafauna has become increasingly popular (Higham and Lück 2008). Examples of this type of tourism include turtle and whale watching, snorkelling with seals and shark diving (Jacobson ...
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 At the end of the Pleistocene, South America witnessed the loss of an 83% of all megafaunal genera that inhabited the continent at that time. Among the taxa that disappeared were all the representatives of the Equidae family, including several species of
Natalia A. Villavicencio +8 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is in the process of preparing exploitation regulations for deep-seabed mining (DSM). DSM has the potential to disturb the seabed over wide areas, yet there is little information on the ecological consequences ...
Jeff A. Ardron +5 more
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Changes in the diet and body size of a small herbivorous mammal (hispid cotton rat, \u3ci\u3eSigmodon hispidus\u3c/i\u3e) following the late Pleistocene megafauna extinction [PDF]
, 2019 The catastrophic loss of large-bodied mammals during the terminal Pleistocene likely led to cascading effects within communities. While the extinction of the top consumers probably expanded the resources available to survivors of all body sizes, little ...
Elliott Smith, Emma A. +4 more
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Cold-water coral mounds and reefs off Mauritania and associated megafauna
Frontiers in Marine ScienceThis study presents the megafauna related to coral mounds (coral remains) and cold-water coral (CWC) reefs off Mauritania. The mound-specific megafauna was documented by comparing 47 trawl catches from coral mounds with 47 catches from off-mound areas ...
Hammoud El Vadhel +7 more
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Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration
Nature Communications, 2020 The causes of the Upper Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Australia and New Guinea are debated, but fossil data are lacking for much of this region. Here, Hocknull and colleagues report a new, diverse megafauna assemblage from north-eastern Australia ...
Scott A. Hocknull +11 more
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