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

Authors: Hanying Li, Ashish Sinha, Aurèle Anquetil André, Christoph Spötl, Hubert B. Vonhof, Arnaud Meunier, Gayatri Kathayat, Pengzhen Duan, Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa, Youfeng Ning, Jayant Biswas, Peng Hu, Xianglei Li, Lijuan Sha, Jingyao Zhao, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng

Published: 2020-10-16

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb2459

Source: Full article

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Abstract

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