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SUBMITTER: van der Kaars S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5263868 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van der Kaars Sander S Miller Gifford H GH Turney Chris S M CS Cook Ellyn J EJ Nürnberg Dirk D Schönfeld Joachim J Kershaw A Peter AP Lehman Scott J SJ
Nature communications 20170120
Environmental histories that span the last full glacial cycle and are representative of regional change in Australia are scarce, hampering assessment of environmental change preceding and concurrent with human dispersal on the continent ca. 47,000 years ago. Here we present a continuous 150,000-year record offshore south-western Australia and identify the timing of two critical late Pleistocene events: wide-scale ecosystem change and regional megafaunal population collapse. We establish that sub ...[more]