One of the great debates about extinction is whether humans or climatic change caused the
demise of the Pleistocene megafauna. Evidence from paleontology, climatology …

Between fifty and ten thousand years ago, most large mammals became extinct everywhere
except Africa. Slow-breeding animals also were hard hit, regardless of size. This unusual …

In Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but
also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them …

When approached by humans, virtually all species flee, but we lack an understanding of the
factors that influence flight response among species. Understanding this variation may allow …

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the
eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for …

Background Some neotropical, fleshy-fruited plants have fruits structurally similar to
paleotropical fruits dispersed by megafauna (mammals> 103 kg), yet these dispersers were …

Debate continues to rage between enthusiasts for climate change versus humans as a
cause of the catastrophic faunal extinctions that have occurred in the wake of human arrival …

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 …

Two major international initiatives–the Convention on Biological Diversity's target to reduce
the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment–raise the …