A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands

Published:2020-10-16 Issue:42 Volume:6 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Li Hanying¹^ORCID,Sinha Ashish²^ORCID,Anquetil André Aurèle³,Spötl Christoph⁴^ORCID,Vonhof Hubert B.⁵^ORCID,Meunier Arnaud³,Kathayat Gayatri¹^ORCID,Duan Pengzhen¹,Voarintsoa Ny Riavo G.⁶,Ning Youfeng¹,Biswas Jayant⁷,Hu Peng⁸⁹,Li Xianglei¹⁰^ORCID,Sha Lijuan¹,Zhao Jingyao¹,Edwards R. Lawrence¹⁰^ORCID,Cheng Hai¹¹⁰^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.

2. Department of Earth Science, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA.

3. François Leguat Giant Tortoise and Cave Reserve, Anse Quitor, Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.

4. Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

5. Max Planck Institute of Chemistry, Hahn-Meitnerweg 1, Mainz, Germany.

6. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

7. National Cave Research and Protection Organization, Raipur, India.

8. Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

9. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

10. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Abstract

Human activities within the context of a drying trend triggered the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands.

Funder

National Science Foundation

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Chinese Academy of Sciences

State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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