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Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation
(Science, 2016-06)
The causes of Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions (60,000 to 11,650 years ago, hereafter 60 to 11.65 ka) remain contentious, with major phases coinciding with both human arrival and climate change around the world. The ...
Reconstructing past ecological networks: the reconfiguration of seed-dispersal interactions after megafaunal extinction
(Springer, 2014-08-01)
The late Quaternary megafaunal extinction impacted ecological communities worldwide, and affected key ecological processes such as seed dispersal. The traits of several species of large-seeded plants are thought to have ...
Late Pleistocene South American megafaunal extinctions associated with rise of Fishtail points and human population
(Springer, 2021-12)
In the 1970s, Paul Martin proposed that big game hunters armed with fluted projectile points colonized the Americas and drove the extinction of megafauna. Around fifty years later, the central role of humans in the extinctions ...
Seed Dispersal Anachronisms: Rethinking the Fruits Extinct Megafauna Ate
(Public Library Science, 2008-03-05)
Background: Some neotropical, fleshy-fruited plants have fruits structurally similar to paleotropical fruits dispersed by megafauna (mammals > 10(3) kg), yet these dispersers were extinct in South America 10-15 Kyr BP. ...
Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions and the functional loss of long-distance seed-dispersal services
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018-01-01)
Pleistocene extinctions affected mainly large-bodied animals, determining the loss or changes in numerous ecological functions. Evidence points to a central role of many extinct megafauna herbivores as seed dispersers. An ...