AbstractLate Quaternary Megafaunal Extinctions in South America: Chronology,
environmental changes and human impacts at regional scalesbyNatalia Andrea …

By the end of the Pleistocene the world lost most of its species of large mammals in what is
known as the Late Quaternary Extinction event. The debate about the possible causes of …

South America lost more genera in the Quaternary megafaunal extinction than any other
continent, but how it fits into the worldwide extinction has been unclear largely due to the …

Abstract As Alfred Russell Wallace once wrote, we live in a zoologically impoverished world,
from which most of the largest, strangest and most spectacular animals disappeared quite …

The late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions may have been the first extinctions directly
related to human activity, but in North America the close temporal proximity of human arrival …

South America lost around 52 genera of mammals during a worldwide event known as the
Late Quaternary Extinction episode. More than 80% of South American mammals weighing> …

The last important–and possibly the most spectacular–turnover in South American mammal
history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamam mal …

A 20 million years reign of large terrestrial mammals, known as megafauna (animals over 45
kg), came to an end during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Particularly apparent in the …

This paper provides an overview of the contentious issue of global megafaunal extinctions in
the Late Quaternary. The main proposed causes are 'overkill', environmental change or a …

Knowledge of the fossil mammals from the Pampean Region of Argentina has greatly
increased in recent years. To analyze the patterns of change in regional climates and …