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ArticleBioscience2019

Micro Methods for Megafauna: Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions and Their Contributions to Faunal Conservation in the Anthropocene.

Jillian A Swift, Michael Bunce, Joe Dortch, Kristina Douglass, J Tyler Faith, James A Fellows Yates, Judith Field, Simon G Haberle, Eileen Jacob, Chris N Johnson and 13 more

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Article in Bioscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

23 authors.

Jillian A SwiftDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7436-1947
Michael BunceTrace and Environmental DNA Laboratory, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
Joe DortchCentre for Rock Art Research and Management, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Kristina DouglassDepartment of Anthropology and with the Institutes for Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
J Tyler FaithNatural History Museum of Utah and with the Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
James A Fellows YatesDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
Judith FieldSchool of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Simon G HaberleCollege of Asia and the Pacific and the School of Culture, History, and Language, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Eileen JacobResearch Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
Chris N JohnsonAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence, Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Emily LindseyLa Brea Tar Pits and Museum, part of the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California.
Eline D LorenzenNatural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Julien LouysAustralian Research Center for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Gifford MillerINSTAAR and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Alexis M MychajliwLa Brea Tar Pits and Museum, part of the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California.ORCID 0000-0003-4801-7496
Viviane SlonDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Natalia A VillavicencioDepartamento de Ecología, in the Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Michael R WatersCenter for the Study of the First Americans, the Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
Frido WelkerEvolutionary Genomics Section of the GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and with the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Rachel WoodResearch School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Michael PetragliaDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
Nicole BoivinDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
Patrick RobertsDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drivers of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions are relevant to modern conservation policy in a world of growing human population density, climate change, and faunal decline. Traditional debates tend toward global solutions, blaming either dramatic climate change or dispersals of Homo sapiens to new regions. Inherent limitations to archaeological and paleontological data sets often require reliance on scant, poorly resolved lines of evidence. However, recent developments in scientific technologies allow for more local, context-specific approaches. In the present article, we highlight how developments in five such methodologies (radiocarbon approaches, stable isotope analysis, ancient DNA, ancient proteomics, microscopy) have helped drive detailed analysis of specific megafaunal species, their particular ecological settings, and responses to new competitors or predators, climate change, and other external phenomena. The detailed case studies of faunal community composition, extinction chronologies, and demographic trends enabled by these methods examine megafaunal extinctions at scales appropriate for practical understanding of threats against particular species in their habitats today.

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Anthropoceneconservationextinctioninterdisciplinary sciencemegafauna

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PMID31719710
PMCPMC6829010

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