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Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul’s megafauna

2020-10-19

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The causes of Sahul’s megafauna extinctions remain uncertain, although multiple, interacting factors were likely responsible. To test hypotheses regarding plausible ecological mechanisms underlying these extinctions, we constructed the first stochastic, age-structured models for 13 extinct megafauna species from five functional/taxonomic groups, as well as 8 extant species within these groups for comparison. Pertu...

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Literature Corpus work: 16e63317-6ddc-5c88-a328-d71cc57d27b9
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.16.342303

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