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What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?

C N Johnson1, J Alroy2, N J Beeton3, M I Bird4, B W Brook3, A Cooper5, R Gillespie6, S Herrando-Pérez7, Z Jacobs8, G H Miller9, G J Prideaux10, R G Roberts8, M Rodríguez-Rey11, F Saltré11, C S M Turney12, C J A Bradshaw11.   

Abstract

During the Pleistocene, Australia and New Guinea supported a rich assemblage of large vertebrates. Why these animals disappeared has been debated for more than a century and remains controversial. Previous synthetic reviews of this problem have typically focused heavily on particular types of evidence, such as the dating of extinction and human arrival, and have frequently ignored uncertainties and biases that can lead to misinterpretation of this evidence. Here, we review diverse evidence bearing on this issue and conclude that, although many knowledge gaps remain, multiple independent lines of evidence point to direct human impact as the most likely cause of extinction.
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Keywords:  archeology; climate change; human impacts; palaeoecology; prehistory; quaternary

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Year:  2016        PMID： 26865301      PMCID： PMC4760161          DOI： 10.1098/rspb.2015.2399

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Proc Biol Sci        ISSN： 0962-8452            Impact factor:   5.349


  26 in total

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Authors:  R G Roberts; T F Flannery; L K Ayliffe; H Yoshida; J M Olley; G J Prideaux; G M Laslett; A Baynes; M A Smith; R Jones; B L Smith
Journal:  Science       Date:  2001-06-08       Impact factor: 47.728

2.  The aftermath of megafaunal extinction: ecosystem transformation in Pleistocene Australia.

Authors:  Susan Rule; Barry W Brook; Simon G Haberle; Chris S M Turney; A Peter Kershaw; Christopher N Johnson
Journal:  Science       Date:  2012-03-23       Impact factor: 47.728

3.  Varied response of western Pacific hydrology to climate forcings over the last glacial period.

Authors:  Stacy A Carolin; Kim M Cobb; Jess F Adkins; Brian Clark; Jessica L Conroy; Syria Lejau; Jenny Malang; Andrew A Tuen
Journal:  Science       Date:  2013-06-06       Impact factor: 47.728

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

Authors:  Stephen Wroe; Judith H Field; Michael Archer; Donald K Grayson; Gilbert J Price; Julien Louys; J Tyler Faith; Gregory E Webb; Iain Davidson; Scott D Mooney
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2013-05-06       Impact factor: 11.205

5.  The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation.

Authors:  Chris Clarkson; Mike Smith; Ben Marwick; Richard Fullagar; Lynley A Wallis; Patrick Faulkner; Tiina Manne; Elspeth Hayes; Richard G Roberts; Zenobia Jacobs; Xavier Carah; Kelsey M Lowe; Jacqueline Matthews; S Anna Florin
Journal:  J Hum Evol       Date:  2015-05-07       Impact factor: 3.895

6.  Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans.

Authors:  Eline D Lorenzen; David Nogués-Bravo; Ludovic Orlando; Jaco Weinstock; Jonas Binladen; Katharine A Marske; Andrew Ugan; Michael K Borregaard; M Thomas P Gilbert; Rasmus Nielsen; Simon Y W Ho; Ted Goebel; Kelly E Graf; David Byers; Jesper T Stenderup; Morten Rasmussen; Paula F Campos; Jennifer A Leonard; Klaus-Peter Koepfli; Duane Froese; Grant Zazula; Thomas W Stafford; Kim Aaris-Sørensen; Persaram Batra; Alan M Haywood; Joy S Singarayer; Paul J Valdes; Gennady Boeskorov; James A Burns; Sergey P Davydov; James Haile; Dennis L Jenkins; Pavel Kosintsev; Tatyana Kuznetsova; Xulong Lai; Larry D Martin; H Gregory McDonald; Dick Mol; Morten Meldgaard; Kasper Munch; Elisabeth Stephan; Mikhail Sablin; Robert S Sommer; Taras Sipko; Eric Scott; Marc A Suchard; Alexei Tikhonov; Rane Willerslev; Robert K Wayne; Alan Cooper; Michael Hofreiter; Andrei Sher; Beth Shapiro; Carsten Rahbek; Eske Willerslev
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2011-11-02       Impact factor: 49.962

7.  New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia.

Authors:  James M Bowler; Harvey Johnston; Jon M Olley; John R Prescott; Richard G Roberts; Wilfred Shawcross; Nigel A Spooner
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2003-02-20       Impact factor: 49.962

8.  Pleistocene extinction of genyornis newtoni: human impact on australian megafauna

Authors: 
Journal:  Science       Date:  1999-01-08       Impact factor: 47.728

9.  Extinction implications of a chenopod browse diet for a giant Pleistocene kangaroo.

Authors:  Gavin J Prideaux; Linda K Ayliffe; Larisa R G DeSantis; Blaine W Schubert; Peter F Murray; Michael K Gagan; Thure E Cerling
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2009-06-25       Impact factor: 11.205

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

Authors:  Frédérik Saltré; Marta Rodríguez-Rey; Barry W Brook; Christopher N Johnson; Chris S M Turney; John Alroy; Alan Cooper; Nicholas Beeton; Michael I Bird; Damien A Fordham; Richard Gillespie; Salvador Herrando-Pérez; Zenobia Jacobs; Gifford H Miller; David Nogués-Bravo; Gavin J Prideaux; Richard G Roberts; Corey J A Bradshaw
Journal:  Nat Commun       Date:  2016-01-29       Impact factor: 14.919
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  9 in total

1.  High-quality fossil dates support a synchronous, Late Holocene extinction of devils and thylacines in mainland Australia.

Authors:  Lauren C White; Frédérik Saltré; Corey J A Bradshaw; Jeremy J Austin
Journal:  Biol Lett       Date:  2018-01       Impact factor: 3.703

2.  Rethinking megafauna.

Authors:  Marcos Moleón; José A Sánchez-Zapata; José A Donázar; Eloy Revilla; Berta Martín-López; Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánovas; Wayne M Getz; Zebensui Morales-Reyes; Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz; Larry B Crowder; Mauro Galetti; Manuela González-Suárez; Fengzhi He; Pedro Jordano; Rebecca Lewison; Robin Naidoo; Norman Owen-Smith; Nuria Selva; Jens-Christian Svenning; José L Tella; Christiane Zarfl; Sonja C Jähnig; Matt W Hayward; Søren Faurby; Nuria García; Anthony D Barnosky; Klement Tockner
Journal:  Proc Biol Sci       Date:  2020-03-04       Impact factor: 5.349

3.  Homogenization of carnivorous mammal ensembles caused by global range reductions of large-bodied hypercarnivores during the late Quaternary.

Authors:  Owen S Middleton; Jörn P W Scharlemann; Christopher J Sandom
Journal:  Proc Biol Sci       Date:  2020-06-24       Impact factor: 5.349

4.  Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago.

Authors:  Chris Clarkson; Zenobia Jacobs; Ben Marwick; Richard Fullagar; Lynley Wallis; Mike Smith; Richard G Roberts; Elspeth Hayes; Kelsey Lowe; Xavier Carah; S Anna Florin; Jessica McNeil; Delyth Cox; Lee J Arnold; Quan Hua; Jillian Huntley; Helen E A Brand; Tiina Manne; Andrew Fairbairn; James Shulmeister; Lindsey Lyle; Makiah Salinas; Mara Page; Kate Connell; Gayoung Park; Kasih Norman; Tessa Murphy; Colin Pardoe
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2017-07-19       Impact factor: 49.962

5.  A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates.

Authors:  Marta Rodríguez-Rey; Salvador Herrando-Pérez; Barry W Brook; Frédérik Saltré; John Alroy; Nicholas Beeton; Michael I Bird; Alan Cooper; Richard Gillespie; Zenobia Jacobs; Christopher N Johnson; Gifford H Miller; Gavin J Prideaux; Richard G Roberts; Chris S M Turney; Corey J A Bradshaw
Journal:  Sci Data       Date:  2016-07-19       Impact factor: 6.444

6.  Ancient tortoise hunting in the southwest Pacific.

Authors:  Stuart Hawkins; Trevor H Worthy; Stuart Bedford; Matthew Spriggs; Geoffrey Clark; Geoff Irwin; Simon Best; Patrick Kirch
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2016-12-06       Impact factor: 4.379

7.  FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul.

Authors:  Katharina J Peters; Frédérik Saltré; Tobias Friedrich; Zenobia Jacobs; Rachel Wood; Matthew McDowell; Sean Ulm; Corey J A Bradshaw
Journal:  Sci Data       Date:  2019-11-19       Impact factor: 6.444

8.  DNA barcoding unravels contrasting evolutionary history of two widespread Asian tiger moth species during the Late Pleistocene.

Authors:  Vitaly M Spitsyn; Alexander V Kondakov; Nikita I Bolotov; Nhi Thi Pham; Mikhail Y Gofarov; Ivan N Bolotov
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2018-04-04       Impact factor: 3.240

9.  Ancient DNA from Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) of South-Western China Reveals Genetic Diversity Loss during the Holocene.

Authors:  Gui-Lian Sheng; Axel Barlow; Alan Cooper; Xin-Dong Hou; Xue-Ping Ji; Nina G Jablonski; Bo-Jian Zhong; Hong Liu; Lawrence J Flynn; Jun-Xia Yuan; Li-Rui Wang; Nikolas Basler; Michael V Westbury; Michael Hofreiter; Xu-Long Lai
Journal:  Genes (Basel)       Date:  2018-04-06       Impact factor: 4.096
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