Water shortages and the park: lack of fresh water on Alaskan island, Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska c5000 years ago...... https://t.co/Vn8496m9YV https://t.co/YAMp8ekgAF
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@JurassicParks Here are some others that track herbivore populations discuss the ecological consequences of megafauna collapse: Widga et al. (2017) - https://t.co/5quTX43fzG Graham et al. (2016) - https://t.co/QX93EJXhcK; Gill et al. (2009) - https://t.co
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The Alaska sites were more ideal for testing the cryptic refugia, but still more work is needed, particularly with lake records similar to the work on St. Paul island on the ca. 5700 cal yr BP mammoth survival that Russ Graham led a few years ago. 5/5 htt
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What killed the last of the mammoths? Pretty clever use of multiple proxies of water quality in fossil record to figure it out! https://t.co/cFl2MqrrYQ Cool eh @AndriaEDawson @jdrobMSU