Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears

dc.creatorMondanaro, Alessandro
dc.creatorDi Febbraro, Mirko
dc.creatorMelchionna, Marina
dc.creatorCarotenuto, Francesco
dc.creatorCastiglione, Silvia
dc.creatorSerio, Carmela
dc.creatorDanisi, Simone
dc.creatorRook, Lorenzo
dc.creatorDiniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola
dc.creatorRaia, Pasquale
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-04T13:42:44Z
dc.date.available2023-07-04T13:42:44Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractCave bears (Ursus spelaeus) are an iconic component of the European late Quaternary Ice Age megafauna. Recent demographic analyses based on cave bear mtDNA sequences and refined radiocarbon dating indicate that cave bear population size and genetic diversity started to decline some 50 kilo years ago (kya). Hence, neither the coldest phase of the last glaciation (started some 24 kya), nor the colonization of Europe by Palaeolithic hunters (started some 45 kya) coincides with the beginning of population decline. Here, we reconstructed cave bear climatic niche evolution through time. Then, we performed spatially explicit population viability analyses to assess cave bear demographics through time in response to climatic changes, human effects on bear survival and their combination. We found that climate change was responsible for a 10-fold decrease in cave bear population size after 40 kya. However, climate change on its own could not explain U. spelaeus extinction at 24 kya. Additional negative effects consistent with human population expansion are required to explain both U. spelaeus' retreat from eastern Europe since 40 kya and its final extinction.pt_BR
dc.identifier.citationMONDANARO, Alessandro et al. Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears. Boreas, Hobokem, v. 48, n. 3, p. 605-615, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/bor.12380. Disponível em: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bor.12380. Acesso em: 15 jun. 2023.pt_BR
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/bor.12380
dc.identifier.issne- 1502-3885
dc.identifier.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bor.12380
dc.language.isoengpt_BR
dc.publisher.countryEstados unidospt_BR
dc.publisher.departmentInstituto de Ciências Biológicas - ICB (RMG)pt_BR
dc.rightsAcesso Restritopt_BR
dc.titleAdditive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bearspt_BR
dc.typeArtigopt_BR

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