Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns

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 among climate, human migration and megafauna ex...

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Main Authors: Frédérik Saltré, Joël Chadoeuf, Katharina J. Peters, Matthew C. McDowell, Tobias Friedrich, Axel Timmermann, Sean Ulm, Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13277-0