For hundreds of millions of years, large vertebrates (megafauna) have inhabited most of the
ecosystems on our planet. During the late Quaternary, notably during the Late P leistocene
and the early H olocene, Earth experienced a rapid extinction of large, terrestrial vertebrates.
While much attention has been paid to understanding the causes of this massive megafauna
extinction, less attention has been given to understanding the impacts of loss of megafauna
on other organisms with whom they interacted. In this review, we discuss how the loss of …

ABSTRACT: For hundreds of millions of years, large vertebrates (megafauna) have
inhabited most of the ecosystems on our planet. During the late Quaternary, notably during
the Late Pleistocene and the early Holocene, Earth experienced a rapid extinction of large,
terrestrial vertebrates. While much attention has been paid to understanding the causes of
this massive megafauna extinction, less attention has been given to understanding the
impacts of loss of megafauna on other organisms with whom they interacted. In this review …