An extinction event in plants in the aftermath of the Quaternary megafaunal extinction?
"Major potential plant extinction events were detected around 17,000 and 9000 years ago which lag maximum vegetation turnover."
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Potential plant extinctions with the loss of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe - Nature Communications
Plant extinctions during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition are poorly documented in the fossil record. Here, the authors present a method to detect plant taxa loss from sedaDNA and demonstrate that ...
