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DOI | 10.1126/science.aau2728 |
Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts | |
Faith, J. Tyler1,2; Rowan, John3,4,5; Du, Andrew6; Koch, Paul L.7 | |
2018-11-23 | |
发表期刊 | SCIENCE
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ISSN | 0036-8075 |
EISSN | 1095-9203 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 362期号:6417页码:938-+ |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this hypothesis has yet to be rigorously tested. We analyzed eastern African herbivore communities spanning the past 7 million years-encompassing the entirety of hominin evolutionary history-to test the hypothesis that top-down impacts of tool-bearing, meat-eating hominins contributed to the demise of megaherbivores prior to the emergence of Homo sapiens. We document a steady, long-term decline ofmegaherbivores beginning similar to 4.6 million years ago, long before the appearance of hominin species capable of exerting top-down control of large mammal communities and predating evidence for hominin interactions with megaherbivore prey. Expansion of C-4 grasslands can account for the loss of megaherbivore diversity. |
领域 | 地球科学 ; 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000451124500040 |
WOS关键词 | LAKE VICTORIA BASIN ; LOWER AWASH VALLEY ; MIDDLE STONE-AGE ; AFAR REGIONAL STATE ; HADAR FORMATION ; LEDI-GERARU ; KIBISH FORMATION ; LATE MIOCENE ; PALEODIETARY RECONSTRUCTION ; AUSTRALOPITHECUS-AFARENSIS |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/200135 |
专题 | 地球科学 资源环境科学 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Utah, Nat Hist Museum Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 USA; 2.Univ Utah, Dept Anthropol, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA; 3.Arizona State Univ, Inst Human Origins, Tempe, AZ 85282 USA; 4.Arizona State Univ, Sch Human Evolut & Social Change, Tempe, AZ 85282 USA; 5.Univ Massachusetts, Dept Anthropol, Amherst, MA 01003 USA; 6.Univ Chicago, Dept Organismal Biol & Anat, 1025 E 57Th St, Chicago, IL 60637 USA; 7.Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Faith, J. Tyler,Rowan, John,Du, Andrew,et al. Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts[J]. SCIENCE,2018,362(6417):938-+. |
APA | Faith, J. Tyler,Rowan, John,Du, Andrew,&Koch, Paul L..(2018).Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts.SCIENCE,362(6417),938-+. |
MLA | Faith, J. Tyler,et al."Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts".SCIENCE 362.6417(2018):938-+. |
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