Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska
Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska
R. Graham,S. Belmecheri,13 Authors,M. Wooller
2016 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604903113
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 133 Citations
TLDR
Evidence indicates that this mammoth population died out because of the synergistic effects of shrinking island area and freshwater scarcity caused by rising sea levels and regional climate change, reinforcing 21st-century concerns about the vulnerability of island populations to future warming, freshwater availability, and sea level rise.