Abstract Explanations for the Upper Pleistocene extinction of megafauna from Sahul
(Australia and New Guinea) remain unresolved. Extinction hypotheses have advanced …

Today, warm-water coral reefs are limited to tropical-to-subtropical latitudes. These diverse
ecosystems extended further poleward in the geological past, but the mechanisms driving …

This paper reviews how human impacts produced a marked shift from natural processes in
the potential input of terrestrial mammals to the fossil record, both in composition of the …

The extinction of large-bodied terrestrial 'megafauna'during earlier phases of the Quaternary
had a significant impact on the transforming structure of ecosystems. However, the causes of …

Invasive bivalves can cause widespread ecological damage, but eradication has proved
difficult. Identifying the pathways of dispersal is crucial to implementing more effective …

Background Paleoanthropological research focus still devotes most resources to areas
generally known to be fossil rich instead of a strategy that first maps and identifies possible …

The 2016 version of the FosSahul database compiled non-human vertebrate megafauna
fossil ages from Sahul published up to 2013 in a standardized format. Its purpose was to …

The separation of discrete fossiliferous levels within an archaeological or paleontological
site with no clear stratigraphic horizons has historically been carried out using qualitative …

Aim Correlative species distribution models (SDMs) are typically trained using only the
contemporary distribution of species; however, recent records might reflect an incomplete …

Understanding the spatial structure of fossil localities is critical for interpreting Earth system
processes based on their geographic distribution. Coordinates of marine and terrestrial sites …