V Brovkin, E Brook, JW Williams, S Bathiany… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The geological record shows that abrupt changes in the Earth system can occur on
timescales short enough to challenge the capacity of human societies to adapt to …
שמור צטט צוטט על ידי 133 NL Boivin, MA Zeder, DQ Fuller, A Crowther… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
The exhibition of increasingly intensive and complex niche construction behaviors through
time is a key feature of human evolution, culminating in the advanced capacity for ecosystem …

Collapse of terrestrial mammal food webs since the Late Pleistocene

EC Fricke, C Hsieh, O Middleton, D Gorczynski… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Food webs influence ecosystem diversity and functioning. Contemporary defaunation has
reduced food web complexity, but simplification caused by past defaunation is difficult to …

Patterns, causes, and consequences of anthropocene defaunation

HS Young, DJ McCauley, M Galetti… - Annual review of …, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
Anthropocene defaunation, the global extinction of faunal species and populations and the
decline in abundance of individuals within populations, has been predominantly …

Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant–pollinator networks

PJ CaraDonna, WK Petry, RM Brennan… - Ecology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Whether species interactions are static or change over time has wide‐reaching ecological
and evolutionary consequences. However, species interaction networks are typically …

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

AD Barnosky, EA Hadly, P Gonzalez, J Head, PD Polly… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND The pace and magnitude of human-caused global change has accelerated
dramatically over the past 50 years, overwhelming the capacity of many ecosystems and …

Historic and prehistoric human‐driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns

S Faurby, JC Svenning - Diversity and Distributions, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess the extent to which humans have reshaped Earth's biodiversity, by estimating
natural ranges of all late Quaternary mammalian species, and to compare diversity patterns …

Global knowledge gaps in species interaction networks data

T Poisot, G Bergeron, K Cazelles, T Dallas… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecological networks are increasingly studied at large spatial scales, expanding their focus
from a conceptual tool for community ecology into one that also addresses questions in …

The restructuring of ecological networks by the Pleistocene extinction

MM Pires - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Most terrestrial large mammals went extinct on different continents at the end of the
Pleistocene, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. Besides the loss in species diversity …