Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns

  • Frédérik Saltré,
  • Joël Chadoeuf,
  • Katharina J. Peters,
  • Matthew C. McDowell,
  • Tobias Friedrich,
  • Axel Timmermann,
  • Sean Ulm,
  • Corey J. A. Bradshaw

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13277-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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 extinctions.