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The Effects of Biome Stability During the Quaternary on Plant Diversity

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.
We used machine learning to reconstruct global biome changes over the last 2.6 million years, revealing that tropical forests, deserts, and temperate forests were relatively stable, whereas northern Europe and North America experienced frequent biome shifts due to ice sheet expansions.
Simon Scheiter, Julia Brugger, Thomas Hickler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New records of odontocete and mysticete predation by orcas in the Humboldt current system, South Pacific Ocean

Frontiers in Marine Science
Orcas (Orcinus orca) are the top marine predators of the ocean, targeting multiple taxa including teleost fishes, elasmobranchs, seabirds, sea turtles, pinnipeds, odontocetes and other large cetaceans.
Ana M. García-Cegarra, Ana M. García-Cegarra, Javier Oña, Javier Oña, Camilo Arancibia, Luis Aguilar, Frederick Toro, Frederick Toro   +7 more
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Using individual‐based modelling to anticipate future conflict potential for expanding European bison populations

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 7, July 2026.
Proactively developing and geographically targeting coexistence measures before conflicts become entrenched can improve megafauna restoration success. Our work demonstrates how integrating spatial conflict indicators into individual‐based models enables forward‐looking simulations of range expansion to guide such measures and to assess how they might ...
Hendrik Bluhm, Rafał Kowalczyk, Daniel Klich, Wanda Olech, Kajetan Perzanowski, Gabriele Retez, Jakub Skorupski, Damaris Zurell, Magdalena Tracz, Maciej Tracz, Roksana Baryło, Aleksandra Wołoszyn‐Gałęza, Maciej Januszczak, Tobias Kuemmerle   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Roadmap for Using Hybridisation Capture–Based Target Enrichment of Ancient Environmental DNA in Palaeoecology

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 26, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Recovering ancient DNA from environmental samples is transforming the way we understand historical ecosystems. While high‐throughput sequencing of the total DNA in environmental samples (shotgun metagenomic sequencing) reveals the taxonomic contents of these samples, the genetic signals of some taxa (e.g., eukaryotes) can be weak compared to ...
Nicole R. Foster, Luke E. Holman, Linda Armbrecht, Jérémy Courtin, Theis Jensen, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Lennart Schreiber, Hannes Schroeder, Frederik V. Seersholm, Giulia Zampirolo, Kristine Bohmann, Heike H. Zimmermann   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene

Cambridge Prisms: Extinction
Across the last ~50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in the Late Pleistocene and Early to Middle Holocene.
Jens-Christian Svenning, Rhys T. Lemoine, Juraj Bergman, Robert Buitenwerf, Elizabeth Le Roux, Erick Lundgren, Ninad Mungi, Rasmus Ø. Pedersen   +7 more
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Megafauna in Italy

SciCoMove — Scientific collections on the move
By Richard A. Fariña, Ángeles Beri, Luciano Varela, Sebastián Tambusso, Martín Batallés Departamento de Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias y Servicio Académico Universitario y Centro de Estudios Paleontológicos Renowned for its cuisine and art, Italy is also home to fossil collections that delight both palaeontologists and the general public ...
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Total Numbers and Movements of Photo‐Identified Subantarctic (Type D) Killer Whales

Marine Mammal Science, Volume 42, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The distinctive Subantarctic (Type D) killer whale (DKW) (Orcinus orca) is a highly divergent and apparently inbred form previously known only from three mass strandings and several dozen at‐sea sightings, primarily from Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) longline vessels in the southern Indian Ocean and from tourism vessels in ...
Jared R. Towers, Paul Tixier, Christophe Guinet, Nicolas Gasco, John P. Y. Arnould, Ted Cheeseman, Robert L. Pitman   +6 more
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Megafauna Extinctions

This paper presents a systems-level framework for understanding late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions across the Americas and other regions. Rather than treating extinction as the result of a single dominant cause, it argues that the observed geographic asymmetry, delayed extinctions, and selective survival patterns are best explained by the ...
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Romeo and Juliet: a forbidden love story? A review of hybridization in keystone, aquatic megafauna

Animal Biodiversity and Conservation
Romeo y Julieta: ¿una historia de amor prohibido? Revisión de la hibridación en megafauna acuática clave La hibridación, entendida aquí como la reproducción sexual entre individuos de diferentes especies, es relativamente común en ambientes fluviales ...
A. Arriaga-Mayorga, N. Castelblanco-Martínez, I. D. Aguilera-Miranda, J. Velarde-Lemus, C. A. Niño-Torres, P. Blanco-Parra, P. Charruau, V. Islas-Villanueva   +7 more
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Giraffe: The Forgotten Megafauna

, 2014
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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