An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator-prey interactions in Holocene Australia

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 693-702

  Prowse, Thomas A A ^a   Johnson, Christopher N ^b   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a,c   Brook, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Holocene extinction; Human intensification; Kangaroos; Marsupials; Megafauna; Paleoecology; Regime shift; Tasmanian devil; Thylacines

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MARSUPIAL; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOECOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREHISTORIC; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO; MACROPODIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; THYLACINUS CYNOCEPHALUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANIDAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANIDAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84901609417     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0746.1     Document Type: Article

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