ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Late Pleistocene shrub expansion preceded megafauna turnover and extinctions in eastern Beringia.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Global spatiotemporal patterns of demographic fluctuations in terrestrial vertebrates during the Late Pleistocene.Science advances · 2025Article
- Potential plant extinctions with the loss of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Comparative Population Genomics of Arctic Sled Dogs Reveals a Deep and Complex History.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Tibetan terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems collapsed with cryosphere loss inferred from sedimentary ancient metagenomics.Science advances · 2024Article
- Assessing contemporary Arctic habitat availability for a woolly mammoth proxy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A female woolly mammoth's lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp.Science advances · 2024Article
- North American pollen records provide evidence for macroscale ecological changes in the Anthropocene.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Wandering mastodons reveal the complexity of Ice Age extinctions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Bottom-up versus top-down megafauna-vegetation interactions in ancient Beringia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
The collapse of the steppe-tundra biome (mammoth steppe) at the end of the Pleistocene is used as an important example of top-down ecosystem cascades, where human hunting of keystone species led to profound changes in vegetation across high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. Alternatively, it is argued that this biome transformation occurred through a bottom-up process, where climate-driven expansion of shrub tundra (
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