Large-scale reptile extinctions following European colonization of the Guadeloupe Islands.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Bochaton, Corentin; Paradis, Emmanuel; Bailon, Salvador; Grouard, Sandrine; Ineich, Ivan; Lenoble, Arnaud; Lorvelec, Olivier; Tresset, Anne; Boivin, Nicole
- Source
- Science Advances. 5/19/2021, Vol. 7 Issue 21, p1-13. 13p.
- Subject
- *REPTILES
*BIOLOGICAL extinction
*PALEOECOLOGY
*POPULATION viability analysis
*PLEISTOCENE-Holocene boundary
*ISLANDS
*ANIMAL diversity
- Language
- ISSN
- 2375-2548
The article presents a study examining large-scale reptile extinctions following European colonization of the Guadeloupe Islands. It reports that archaeological remains provides insights into the causes of snake and lizard extinctions and shows that failure to consider fossil-derived data probably contributes to substantial underestimation of human impacts to global biodiversity.