The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

JW Williams, EC Grimm, JL Blois, DF Charles… - Quaternary …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a community-curated data resource that supports
interdisciplinary global change research by enabling broad-scale studies of taxon and …

Pleistocene overkill and North American mammalian extinctions

DJ Meltzer - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Clovis groups in Late Pleistocene North America occasionally hunted several now extinct
large mammals. But whether their hunting drove 37 genera of animals to extinction has been …

Climate‐driven ecological stability as a globally shared cause of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: the Plaids and Stripes Hypothesis

DH Mann, P Groves, BV Gaglioti… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Controversy persists about why so many large‐bodied mammal species went extinct around
the end of the last ice age. Resolving this is important for understanding extinction …

Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA

TJ Murchie, AJ Monteath, ME Mahony, GS Long… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The temporal and spatial coarseness of megafaunal fossil records complicates attempts to to
disentangle the relative impacts of climate change, ecosystem restructuring, and human …

Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions

JM Broughton, EM Weitzel - Nature Communications, 2018 - nature.com
Dozens of large mammals such as mammoth and mastodon disappeared in North America
at the end of the Pleistocene with climate change and “overkill” by human hunters the most …

Mammoth featured heavily in Western Clovis diet

JC Chatters, BA Potter, SJ Fiedel, JE Morrow… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Ancient Native American ancestors (Clovis) have been interpreted as either specialized
megafauna hunters or generalist foragers. Supporting data are typically indirect (toolkits …

Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge

AO Vershinina, PD Heintzman, DG Froese… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Bering Land Bridge (BLB) last connected Eurasia and North America during
the Late Pleistocene. Although the BLB would have enabled transfers of terrestrial biota in …

A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America

PD Heintzman, GD Zazula, RDE MacPhee, E Scott… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The extinct 'New World stilt-legged', or NWSL, equids constitute a perplexing group of
Pleistocene horses endemic to North America. Their slender distal limb bones resemble …

Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction

AB Tóth, SK Lyons, WA Barr, AK Behrensmeyer… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Large mammals are at high risk of extinction globally. To understand the consequences of
their demise for community assembly, we tracked community structure through the end …

Life and extinction of megafauna in the ice-age Arctic

DH Mann, P Groves, RE Reanier… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the population dynamics of megafauna that inhabited the mammoth steppe
provides insights into the causes of extinctions during both the terminal Pleistocene and …