Fig. 4: Estimates of total megafauna individuals (Census size), biomass and energy turnover summed across species for different timepoints with respect to the baseline period. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Estimates of total megafauna individuals (Census size), biomass and energy turnover summed across species for different timepoints with respect to the baseline period.

From: Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associated with Homo sapiens expansion rather than climate change

Fig. 4

a Parameter trends during the last 100,000 years with respect to the baseline period (100–742 kya) for 139 extant megafauna species that are included in our initial study dataset. b Contrast between the baseline and current period while taking into account all extant (both included and missing from our dataset) and extinct megafauna species (457 species for the baseline period and 260 species for the current period). Source Data for this figure are in Source Data 13, 14.

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