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    Mammalian tolerance to humans is predicted by body mass: evidence from long-term archives.

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    Authors
    Crees, JJ
    Turvey, ST
    Freeman, R
    Carbone, C
    Issue date
    08/06/2019
    Submitted date
    2019-06-24
    Subject Terms
    mammals
    extinction filter
    extinction risk
    historical ecology
    Holocene
    human population density
    
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    Abstract
    Humans are implicated as a major driver of species extinctions from the Late Pleistocene to the present. However, our predictive understanding of human-caused extinction remains poor due to the restricted temporal and spatial scales at which this process is typically assessed, and the risks of bias due to "extinction filters" resulting from a poor understanding of past species declines. We develop a novel continent-wide dataset containing country-level last-occurrence records for 30 European terrestrial mammals across the Holocene (c.11,500 years to present), an epoch of relative climatic stability that captures major transitions in human demography. We analyze regional extirpations against a high-resolution database of human population density (HPD) estimates to identify species-specific tolerances to changing HPD through the Holocene. Mammalian thresholds to HPD scale strongly with body mass, with larger-bodied mammals experiencing regional population losses at lower HPDs than smaller-bodied mammals. Our analysis enables us to identify levels of tolerance to HPD for different species, and therefore has wide applicability for determining biotic vulnerability to human impacts. This ecological pattern is confirmed across wide spatiotemporal scales, providing insights into the dynamics of prehistoric extinctions and the modern biodiversity crisis, and emphasizing the role of long-term archives in understanding human-caused biodiversity loss. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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    Crees, J. J., Turvey, S. T., Freeman, R. and Carbone, C. (2019), Mammalian tolerance to humans is predicted by body mass: evidence from long‐term archives. Ecology. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/ecy.2783
    Publisher
    Ecological Society of America
    Journal
    Ecology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10141/622538
    DOI
    10.1002/ecy.2783
    Type
    Journal Article
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    © 2019 Ecological Society of America. All rights reserved. This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/ecy.2783
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    1939-9170
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1002/ecy.2783
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