Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans
Despite decades of research, the roles of climate and humans in driving the dramatic extinctions of large-bodied mammals during the Late Quaternary remain contentious. We use ancient DNA, species distribution models and the human fossil record to elucidate how climate and humans shaped the demograph...
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ftunivkansas:oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/14688 2023-05-15T17:13:37+02:00 Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans Lorenzen, Eline D. Nogués-Bravo, David Orlando, Ludovic Weinstock, Jaco Binladen, Jonas Marske, Katharine A. Ugan, Andrew Borregaard, Michael K. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Nielsen, Rasmus Ho, Simon Y. W. Goegel, Ted Graf, Kelly E. Byers, David Stenderup, Jesper T. Rasmussen, Morten Campos, Paula F. Leonard, Jennifer A. Koepfli, Klaus-Peter Froese, Duane Zazula, Grant Stafford, Thomas W., Jr. Aaris-Sørensen, Kim Batra, Persaram Haywood, Alan M. Singarayer, Joy S. Valdes, Paul J. Boeskorov, Gennady Burns, James A. Davydov, Sergey P. Haile, James Jenkins, Dennis L. Kosintsev, Pavel Kuznetsova, Tatyana Lai, Xulong Martin, Larry D. McDonald, H. Gregory Mol, Dick Meldgaard, Morten Munch, Kasper Stephan, Elisabeth Sablin, Mikhail Sommer, Robert S. Sipko, Taras Scott, Eric Suchard, Marc A. Tikhonov, Alexei Willerslev, Rane Wayne, Robert K. Cooper, Alan 2014-07-10T15:22:33Z http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14688 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10574 unknown Nature Publishing Group Lorenzen et al."Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans." Nature. 479(7373): 359–364. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10574. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14688 doi:10.1038/nature10574 openAccess Article 2014 ftunivkansas https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10574 2022-08-26T13:15:00Z Despite decades of research, the roles of climate and humans in driving the dramatic extinctions of large-bodied mammals during the Late Quaternary remain contentious. We use ancient DNA, species distribution models and the human fossil record to elucidate how climate and humans shaped the demographic history of woolly rhinoceros, woolly mammoth, wild horse, reindeer, bison and musk ox. We show that climate has been a major driver of population change over the past 50,000 years. However, each species responds differently to the effects of climatic shifts, habitat redistribution and human encroachment. Although climate change alone can explain the extinction of some species, such as Eurasian musk ox and woolly rhinoceros, a combination of climatic and anthropogenic effects appears to be responsible for the extinction of others, including Eurasian steppe bison and wild horse. We find no genetic signature or any distinctive range dynamics distinguishing extinct from surviving species, underscoring the challenges associated with predicting future responses of extant mammals to climate and human-mediated habitat change. This paper is in the memory of our friend and colleague Dr. Andrei Sher, who was a major contributor of this study. Dr Sher died unexpectedly, but his major contributions to the field of Quaternary science will be remembered and appreciated for many years to come. We are grateful to Dr. Adrian Lister and Dr. Tony Stuart for guides and discussions. Thanks to Tina B. Brandt, Dr. Bryan Hockett and Alice Telka for laboratory help and samples and to L. Malik R. Thrane for his work on the megafauna locality database. Data taken from the Stage 3 project was partly funded by Grant #F/757/A from the Leverhulme Trust, together with a grant from the McDonald Grants and Awards Fund. We acknowledge the Danish National Research Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, the Danish Council for Independent Research and the US National Science Foundation for financial support Article in Journal/Newspaper musk ox The University of Kansas: KU ScholarWorks Lister ENVELOPE(-60.083,-60.083,-62.483,-62.483) Nature 479 7373 359 364 |
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Despite decades of research, the roles of climate and humans in driving the dramatic extinctions of large-bodied mammals during the Late Quaternary remain contentious. We use ancient DNA, species distribution models and the human fossil record to elucidate how climate and humans shaped the demographic history of woolly rhinoceros, woolly mammoth, wild horse, reindeer, bison and musk ox. We show that climate has been a major driver of population change over the past 50,000 years. However, each species responds differently to the effects of climatic shifts, habitat redistribution and human encroachment. Although climate change alone can explain the extinction of some species, such as Eurasian musk ox and woolly rhinoceros, a combination of climatic and anthropogenic effects appears to be responsible for the extinction of others, including Eurasian steppe bison and wild horse. We find no genetic signature or any distinctive range dynamics distinguishing extinct from surviving species, underscoring the challenges associated with predicting future responses of extant mammals to climate and human-mediated habitat change. This paper is in the memory of our friend and colleague Dr. Andrei Sher, who was a major contributor of this study. Dr Sher died unexpectedly, but his major contributions to the field of Quaternary science will be remembered and appreciated for many years to come. We are grateful to Dr. Adrian Lister and Dr. Tony Stuart for guides and discussions. Thanks to Tina B. Brandt, Dr. Bryan Hockett and Alice Telka for laboratory help and samples and to L. Malik R. Thrane for his work on the megafauna locality database. Data taken from the Stage 3 project was partly funded by Grant #F/757/A from the Leverhulme Trust, together with a grant from the McDonald Grants and Awards Fund. We acknowledge the Danish National Research Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, the Danish Council for Independent Research and the US National Science Foundation for financial support |
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Lorenzen, Eline D. Nogués-Bravo, David Orlando, Ludovic Weinstock, Jaco Binladen, Jonas Marske, Katharine A. Ugan, Andrew Borregaard, Michael K. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Nielsen, Rasmus Ho, Simon Y. W. Goegel, Ted Graf, Kelly E. Byers, David Stenderup, Jesper T. Rasmussen, Morten Campos, Paula F. Leonard, Jennifer A. Koepfli, Klaus-Peter Froese, Duane Zazula, Grant Stafford, Thomas W., Jr. Aaris-Sørensen, Kim Batra, Persaram Haywood, Alan M. Singarayer, Joy S. Valdes, Paul J. Boeskorov, Gennady Burns, James A. Davydov, Sergey P. Haile, James Jenkins, Dennis L. Kosintsev, Pavel Kuznetsova, Tatyana Lai, Xulong Martin, Larry D. McDonald, H. Gregory Mol, Dick Meldgaard, Morten Munch, Kasper Stephan, Elisabeth Sablin, Mikhail Sommer, Robert S. Sipko, Taras Scott, Eric Suchard, Marc A. Tikhonov, Alexei Willerslev, Rane Wayne, Robert K. Cooper, Alan |
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Lorenzen, Eline D. Nogués-Bravo, David Orlando, Ludovic Weinstock, Jaco Binladen, Jonas Marske, Katharine A. Ugan, Andrew Borregaard, Michael K. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Nielsen, Rasmus Ho, Simon Y. W. Goegel, Ted Graf, Kelly E. Byers, David Stenderup, Jesper T. Rasmussen, Morten Campos, Paula F. Leonard, Jennifer A. Koepfli, Klaus-Peter Froese, Duane Zazula, Grant Stafford, Thomas W., Jr. Aaris-Sørensen, Kim Batra, Persaram Haywood, Alan M. Singarayer, Joy S. Valdes, Paul J. Boeskorov, Gennady Burns, James A. Davydov, Sergey P. Haile, James Jenkins, Dennis L. Kosintsev, Pavel Kuznetsova, Tatyana Lai, Xulong Martin, Larry D. McDonald, H. Gregory Mol, Dick Meldgaard, Morten Munch, Kasper Stephan, Elisabeth Sablin, Mikhail Sommer, Robert S. Sipko, Taras Scott, Eric Suchard, Marc A. Tikhonov, Alexei Willerslev, Rane Wayne, Robert K. Cooper, Alan Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans |
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