Climate change is predicted to become a major threat to biodiversity in the 21st century, but
accurate predictions and effective solutions have proved difficult to formulate. Alarming …

If habitat destruction or overexploitation of populations is severe, species loss can occur
directly and abruptly. Yet the final descent to extinction is often driven by synergistic …

Although one-quarter of plant and vertebrate species are threatened with extinction, little is
known about the potential effect of extinctions on the global diversity of ecological strategies …

To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have
affected biodiversity in the past. However, the extent of human involvement in species …

Many of the world's vertebrates have experienced large population and geographic range
declines due to anthropogenic threats that put them at risk of extinction. The largest …

The temporal and spatial coarseness of megafaunal fossil records complicates attempts to to
disentangle the relative impacts of climate change, ecosystem restructuring, and human …

Many large animal species have a high risk of extinction. This is usually thought to result
simply from the way that species traits associated with vulnerability, such as low …

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 …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …