Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years–a synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group

JM Reeves, HC Bostock, LK Ayliffe, TT Barrows… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The tropics are the major source of heat and moisture for the Australasian region.
Determining the tropics' response over time to changes in climate forcing mechanisms, such …

An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria)

MDB Eldridge, RMD Beck, DA Croft… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of
scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject …

[LIVRE][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota

M Byrne, DA Steane, L Joseph, DK Yeates… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The mesic biome, encompassing both rain forest and open sclerophyllous forests, is
central to understanding the evolution of Australia's terrestrial biota and has long been …

Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea)

S Wroe, JH Field, M Archer… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Around 88 large vertebrate taxa disappeared from Sahul sometime during the Pleistocene,
with the majority of losses (54 taxa) clearly taking place within the last 400,000 years. The …

Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration

SA Hocknull, R Lewis, LJ Arnold, T Pietsch… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Explanations for the Upper Pleistocene extinction of megafauna from Sahul
(Australia and New Guinea) remain unresolved. Extinction hypotheses have advanced …

Indonesian Throughflow drove Australian climate from humid Pliocene to arid Pleistocene

BA Christensen, W Renema… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Late Miocene to mid‐Pleistocene sedimentary proxy records reveal that northwest
Australia underwent an abrupt transition from dry to humid climate conditions at 5.5 million …

New Guinea uplift opens ecological opportunity across a continent

E Roycroft, PH Fabre, AJ MacDonald, C Moritz… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Sahul unites the world's largest and highest tropical island and the oldest and most arid
continent on the backdrop of dynamic environmental conditions. Massive geological uplift in …

The rise of Australian marsupials: a synopsis of biostratigraphic, phylogenetic, palaeoecologic and palaeobiogeographic understanding

KH Black, M Archer, SJ Hand, H Godthelp - Earth and life: global …, 2012 - Springer
The origins, evolution and palaeodiversity of Australia's unique marsupial fauna are
reviewed. Australia's marsupial fauna is both taxonomically and ecologically diverse …

Diversification and persistence at the arid–monsoonal interface: Australia-wide biogeography of the Bynoe's gecko (Heteronotia binoei; Gekkonidae)

MK Fujita, JA McGuire, SC Donnellan, C Moritz - Evolution, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Late Neogene aridification in the Southern Hemisphere caused contractions of mesic biota
to refugia, similar to the patterns established by glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere, but …