Climate-driven ecological stability as a globally shared cause of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: the Plaids and Stripes Hypothesis

The earliest modern humans outside Africa

(2018) Israel Hershkovitz et al.   SCIENCE

Big data little help in megafauna mysteries

(2018) Gilbert J. Price et al.   NATURE

Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans

(2018) J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar et al.   NATURE

Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration

(2017) JAMIE R. WOOD et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America

(2017) Duane Froese et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A case of early Wisconsinan “over-chill”: New radiocarbon evidence for early extirpation of western camel ( Camelops hesternus ) in eastern Beringia

(2017) Grant D. Zazula et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

(2017) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   SCIENCE

Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island

(2017) Rebekah L. Rogers et al.   PLoS Genetics

Megafaunal isotopes reveal role of increased moisture on rangeland during late Pleistocene extinctions

(2017) M. Timothy Rabanus-Wallace et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Impact-related microspherules in Late Pleistocene Alaskan and Yukon “muck” deposits signify recurrent episodes of catastrophic emplacement

(2017) Jonathan T. Hagstrum et al.   Scientific Reports

Defaunation and biomass collapse of mammals in the largest Atlantic forest remnant

(2016) M. Galetti et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

The changing role of mammal life histories in Late Quaternary extinction vulnerability on continents and islands

(2016) S. Kathleen Lyons et al.   Biology Letters

High-resolution records detect human-caused changes to the boreal forest wildfire regime in interior Alaska

(2016) Benjamin V Gaglioti et al.   HOLOCENE

Terrestrial movement energetics: current knowledge and its application to the optimising animal

(2016) Lewis G. Halsey   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A late Quaternary vertebrate deposit in Kudjal Yolgah Cave, south-western Australia: refining regional late Pleistocene extinctions

(2016) Nathan R. Jankowski et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Large mammal species richness and late Quaternary precipitation change in south-western Australia

(2016) J. Tyler Faith et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska

(2016) Russell W. Graham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

(2016) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mammal faunas in Europe at the end of the Early – Beginning of the Middle Pleistocene

(2016) Anastasia К. Markova et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Millennial to orbital-scale variations of drought intensity in the Eastern Mediterranean

(2016) Mona Stockhecke et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Vegetation responses to abrupt climatic changes during the Last Interglacial Complex (Marine Isotope Stage 5) at Tenaghi Philippon, NE Greece

(2016) A.M. Milner et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Disentangling the impacts of climate and human colonization on the flora and fauna of the Australian arid zone over the past 100 ka using stable isotopes in avian eggshell

(2016) Gifford H. Miller et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?

(2016) W. F. Ruddiman et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

(2016) Frédérik Saltré et al.   Nature Communications

North Atlantic warming during Dansgaard-Oeschger events synchronous with Antarctic warming and out-of-phase with Greenland climate

(2016) Tine L. Rasmussen et al.   Scientific Reports

The Influence of Paleoclimate on Present-Day Patterns in Biodiversity and Ecosystems

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Global semi-arid climate change over last 60 years

(2015) Jianping Huang et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Historic and prehistoric human-driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns

(2015) S. Faurby et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

An 800-kyr record of global surface ocean δ 18 O and implications for ice volume-temperature coupling

(2015) Jeremy D. Shakun et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geographic variation in the ecological effects of extinction of Australia's Pleistocene megafauna

(2015) Chris N. Johnson et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework

(2015) Benjamin Blonder et al.   ECOLOGY

Hydrological transformation coincided with megafaunal extinction in central Australia

(2015) Tim J. Cohen et al.   GEOLOGY

Millennial changes in North American wildfire and soil activity over the last glacial cycle

(2015) Hubertus Fischer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Test of Martin’s overkill hypothesis using radiocarbon dates on extinct megafauna

(2015) Todd A. Surovell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Life and extinction of megafauna in the ice-age Arctic

(2015) Daniel H. Mann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sea otters, kelp forests, and the extinction of Steller’s sea cow

(2015) James A. Estes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interglacial analogues of the Holocene and its natural near future

(2015) Qiuzhen Yin et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa

(2015) G. P. Hempson et al.   SCIENCE

Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover

(2015) A. Cooper et al.   SCIENCE

Vegetation succession in deglaciated landscapes: implications for sediment and landscape stability

(2014) Megan J. Klaar et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions on the continents: a short review

(2014) Anthony John Stuart   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Body size and activity times mediate mammalian responses to climate change

(2014) Christy M. McCain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A simple Bayesian method of inferring extinction

(2014) John Alroy   PALEOBIOLOGY

A High-Resolution Chronology of Rapid Forest Transitions following Polynesian Arrival in New Zealand

(2014) David B. McWethy et al.   PLoS One

American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change

(2014) Grant D. Zazula et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecology and mode-of-life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals

(2014) K. Healy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

(2014) C. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Consistently dated records from the Greenland GRIP, GISP2 and NGRIP ice cores for the past 104 ka reveal regional millennial-scale δ18O gradients with possible Heinrich event imprint

(2014) Inger K. Seierstad et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy

(2014) Sune O. Rasmussen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A high-precision chronology for the rapid extinction of New Zealand moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)

(2014) George L.W. Perry et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

East African climate pulses and early human evolution

(2014) Mark A. Maslin et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

An extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa

(2014) Richard N. Holdaway et al.   Nature Communications

Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles

(2014) K. M. Grant et al.   Nature Communications

Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

(2013) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Contrasts in the large herbivore faunas of the southern continents in the late Pleistocene and the ecological implications for human origins

(2013) Norman Owen-Smith   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental variability during the Last Interglacial: a new high-resolution pollen record from Tenaghi Philippon, Greece

(2013) Alice M. Milner et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

(2013) D. Dahl-Jensen et al.   NATURE

Links between tropical rainfall and North Atlantic climate during the last glacial period

(2013) Gaudenz Deplazes et al.   Nature Geoscience

Determining the response of African biota to climate change: using the past to model the future

(2013) K. J. Willis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Temporal Change in Functional Richness and Evenness in the Eastern African Plio-Pleistocene Carnivoran Guild

(2013) Lars Werdelin et al.   PLoS One

Millennial Climatic Fluctuations Are Key to the Structure of Last Glacial Ecosystems

(2013) Brian Huntley et al.   PLoS One

Tree Migration-Rates: Narrowing the Gap between Inferred Post-Glacial Rates and Projected Rates

(2013) Angelica Feurdean et al.   PLoS One

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

(2013) R. P. Duncan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea)

(2013) S. Wroe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stone tools and foraging in northern Madagascar challenge Holocene extinction models

(2013) R. E. Dewar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying the periodicity of Heinrich and Dansgaard–Oeschger events during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3

(2013) John A. Long et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Ungulate diversity and precipitation history since the Last Glacial Maximum in the Western Cape, South Africa

(2013) J. Tyler Faith   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ice-age megafauna in Arctic Alaska: extinction, invasion, survival

(2013) Daniel H. Mann et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The problem of conifer species migration lag in the Pacific Northwest region since the last glaciation

(2013) Scott A. Elias   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

North Atlantic forcing of millennial-scale Indo-Australian monsoon dynamics during the Last Glacial period

(2013) Rhawn F. Denniston et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Abrupt Shifts in Horn of Africa Hydroclimate Since the Last Glacial Maximum

(2013) J. E. Tierney et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid interhemispheric climate links via the Australasian monsoon during the last deglaciation

(2013) Linda K. Ayliffe et al.   Nature Communications

Assessing the Jarman–Bell Principle: Scaling of intake, digestibility, retention time and gut fill with body mass in mammalian herbivores

(2012) Dennis W.H. Müller et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Precipitation, soils, NPP, and biodiversity: resurrection of Albrecht's curve

(2012) Michael A. Huston   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Vegetation responses to rapid warming and to minor climatic fluctuations during the Late-Glacial Interstadial (GI-1) at Gerzensee (Switzerland)

(2012) Brigitta Ammann et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Modelling the climatic diversity of the warm interglacials

(2012) N. Herold et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climatic and megaherbivory controls on late-glacial vegetation dynamics: a new, high-resolution, multi-proxy record from Silver Lake, Ohio

(2012) Jacquelyn L. Gill et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mammoth steppe: a high-productivity phenomenon

(2012) S.A. Zimov et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

High-Latitude Forcing of the South American Summer Monsoon During the Last Glacial

(2012) L. C. Kanner et al.   SCIENCE

How landscape dynamics link individual- to population-level movement patterns: a multispecies comparison of ungulate relocation data

(2011) Thomas Mueller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The role of GCM resolution in simulating glacial inception

(2011) Steve Vavrus et al.   HOLOCENE

Sea-level oscillations during the last interglacial highstand recorded by Bahamas corals

(2011) William G. Thompson et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climatological determinants of woody cover in Africa

(2011) S. P. Good et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Robust estimates of extinction time in the geological record

(2011) C.J.A. Bradshaw et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability

(2011) S. Barker et al.   SCIENCE

Linking Top-down Forces to the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions

(2010) William J. Ripple et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Tracking greenery across a latitudinal gradient in central Asia - the migration of the saiga antelope

(2010) N. J. Singh et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Factors influencing the Holocene history of Fagus

(2010) R.H.W. Bradshaw et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Pitfalls and challenges of estimating population growth rate from empirical data: consequences for allometric scaling relations

(2010) William F. Fagan et al.   OIKOS

Foraging theory upscaled: the behavioural ecology of herbivore movement

(2010) N. Owen-Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert

(2010) N. A. Drake et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modest summer temperature variability during DO cycles in western Europe

(2010) Linda Ampel et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Last straw versus Blitzkrieg overkill: Climate-driven changes in the Arctic Siberian mammoth population and the Late Pleistocene extinction problem

(2010) P.A. Nikolskiy et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Opposing Rainfall and Plant Nutritional Gradients Best Explain the Wildebeest Migration in the Serengeti

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Extinction of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) in Eurasia: Review of chronological and environmental issues

(2009) YAROSLAV V. KUZMIN   BOREAS

Plant migration and plant communities at the time of the “green Sahara”

(2009) Julie Watrin et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Ecological Change, Range Fluctuations and Population Dynamics during the Pleistocene

(2009) Michael Hofreiter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The coastal-disjunct mesic flora in the inland Pacific Northwest of USA and Canada: refugia, dispersal and disequilibrium

(2009) Daniel G. Gavin   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The use of sighting records to infer species extinctions: an evaluation of different methods

(2009) Marcelo M. Rivadeneira et al.   ECOLOGY

Interglacial diversity

(2009) P. C. Tzedakis et al.   Nature Geoscience

Food-web structure and ecosystem services: insights from the Serengeti

(2009) A. Dobson   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Refugia revisited: individualistic responses of species in space and time

(2009) J. R. Stewart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Timing of Quaternary megafaunal extinction in South America in relation to human arrival and climate change

(2009) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial: The ice core record

(2009) E.W. Wolff et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

(2009) Mikko Kuussaari et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Global decline in aggregated migrations of large terrestrial mammals

(2009) G Harris et al.   Endangered Species Research

The impact of climate change on large mammal distribution and extinction: Evidence from the last glacial/interglacial transition

(2008) Adrian M. Lister et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Isolation of African protected areas

(2008) William D Newmark   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in western Europe, 40–16 ka

(2008) Barbara Wohlfarth et al.   GEOLOGY

Alluvial evidence for major climate and flow regime changes during the middle and late Quaternary in eastern central Australia

(2008) Gerald C. Nanson et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A general dynamic theory of oceanic island biogeography

(2008) Robert J. Whittaker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Genetic consequences of glacial survival and postglacial colonization in Norway spruce: combined analysis of mitochondrial DNA and fossil pollen

(2008) MARI METTE TOLLEFSRUD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota

(2008) M. BYRNE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat

(2008) J. M. Wilmshurst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Collection of radiocarbon dates on the mammoths (Mammuthus Primigenius) and other genera of Wrangel Island, northeast Siberia, Russia

(2008) Sergey L. Vartanyan et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Climate model tests of the anthropogenic influence on greenhouse-induced climate change: the role of early human agriculture, industrialization, and vegetation feedbacks

(2008) S. Vavrus et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climatic patterns in equatorial and southern Africa from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

(2008) Françoise Gasse et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

(2008) J. E. Tierney et al.   SCIENCE

Synergies among extinction drivers under global change

(2008) B BROOK et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION