Title:
Humans and Climate drove Giants of Madagascar to Extinction
Published:
University of Innsbruck, 16 October 2020
From the article:
The entire endemic megafauna of Madagascar and the Mascarene islands was eliminated during the past millennium. To investigate possible drivers of this extinction, an international team of scientists constructed an 8000-year record of the islands’ past climate. Result: The ecosystem was resilient to prior climate stress but collapsed with an increase in human activities.