Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "O'Connor, Sue"

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    • First record of avian extinctions from the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of Timor Leste 

      Meijer, Hanneke; Louys, Julien; O'Connor, Sue (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Timor has yielded the earliest evidence for modern humans in Wallacea, but despite its long history of modern human occupation, there is little evidence for human-induced Late Pleistocene extinctions. Here, we report on ...

    • No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival 

      Louys, Julien; Braje, Todd J.; Chang, Chun-Hsiang; Cosgrove, Richard; Fitzpatrick, Scott M.; Fujita, Masaki; Hawkins, Stuart; Ingicco, Thomas; Kawamura, Ai; MacPhee, Ross D. E.; McDowell, Matthew C.; Meijer, Hanneke Johanna Maria; Piper, PJ; Roberts, Patrick; Simmons, Alan H.; Van den Bergh, Gerrit; Van der Geer, Alexandra; Kealy, Shimona; O'Connor, Sue (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The arrival of modern humans into previously unoccupied island ecosystems is closely linked to widespread extinction, and a key reason cited for Pleistocene megafauna extinction is anthropogenic overhunting. A common ...