Pleistocene megafaunal collapse, novel plant communities, and enhanced fire regimes in North America
Gill et al. · 2009
Science
Citation
Gill et al. (2009). Pleistocene megafaunal collapse, novel plant communities, and enhanced fire regimes in North America. Science.
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Claims the North American megafaunal extinction was a steady decline that took place over several thousand years, not during an isochronic Younger Dryas event.
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