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Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns
Nature Communications, 2019 Whether Australia’s Pleistocene megafauna extinctions were caused by climate change, humans, or both is debated. Here, the authors infer the spatio-temporal trajectories of regional extinctions and find that water availability mediates the relationship ...
Frédérik Saltré +7 more
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Will woody plant encroachment impact the visitor experience and economy of conservation areas?
Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2013 Woody plant encroachment into savannas is a globally prevalent phenomenon and impacts ecosystem goods and services such as biodiversity, carbon storage, nutrient cycling, grazing and hydrology.
Emma F. Gray, William J. Bond
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Priorities for ecological research on cetaceans in the Galápagos Islands
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Located in the eastern tropical Pacific, the Galápagos Islands are an oceanic insular ecosystem subject to strong environmental variability driven by local and regional processes.
Daniel M. Palacios +3 more
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Different megafauna vary in their seed dispersal effectiveness of the megafaunal fruit Platymitra macrocarpa (Annonaceae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The world's largest terrestrial animals (megafauna) can play profound roles in seed dispersal. Yet, the term 'megafauna' is often used to encompass a diverse range of body sizes and physiologies of, primarily, herbivorous animals. To determine the extent
Kim R McConkey +7 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Diprotodontids were the largest marsupials to exist and an integral part of Australian terrestrial ecosystems until the last members of the group became extinct approximately 40 000 years ago.
Jacob D. van Zoelen +3 more
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The functional extinction of Andean megafauna [PDF]
Ecology, 2016 AbstractControversy exists over the cause and timing of the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna. In the tropical Andes, deglaciation and associated rapid climate change began ~8,000 years before human arrival, providing an opportunity to separate the effects of climate change from human hunting on megafaunal extinction. We present a paleoecological
Angela, Rozas-Davila +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Asian elephants play crucial roles in ecosystem functioning, and their interactions with plants influence above‐ and belowground carbon cycling. We tested whether their mechanically destructive foraging triggers short‐term, stress‐induced shifts in tree root exudation, an underappreciated pathway linking herbivory to belowground carbon processes.
Pratibha Khatri +3 more
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Scientific ReportsKelp forest trophic cascades have been extensively researched, yet indirect effects to the zooplankton prey base and gray whales have not been explored. We investigate the correlative patterns of a trophic cascade between bull kelp and purple sea urchins
Lisa Hildebrand +3 more
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Enter the Anthropocene : an epoch of time characterised by humans [PDF]
, 2009 In the first years of the 21st century Earth was being influenced by forces greater than our own and yet as vulnerable. With infinite complacency men and women went to and fro over this globe about their affairs, serene in their assurance of their ...
Williams, Mark, Zalasiewicz, Jan
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Cold-water coral reef frameworks, megafaunal communities and evidence for coral carbonate mounds on the Hatton Bank, north east Atlantic [PDF]
, 2008 Offshore banks and seamounts sustain diverse megafaunal communities, including framework reefs formed by cold-water corals. Few studies have quantified environmental effects on the alpha or beta diversity of these communities.
Hartley, J.P. +3 more
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