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

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: 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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
• Subjects: Lister; musk ox
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14688; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10574

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...