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Mass Animal Extinctions, Not Climate Change, Caused Major Shifts in Plant Communities

Photo of researchers collecting a sediment core from Silver Lake, Ohio.

Jeremiah Marsicek (standing on the left), Jack Williams and Jacquelyn Gill, all of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Michael Urban of the University of Wyoming collect a sediment core from Silver Lake, Ohio.

Credit: Steve Jackson, University of Wyoming


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Photo of researchers preparing a platform for collecting sediment cores from Silver Lake, Ohio.

During an earlier field expedition, Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin at Madison (left), Michael Urban of the University of Wyoming, and Jeremiah Marsicek and Jacquelyn Gill, both of Wisconsin, prepare a platform for collecting sediment cores from Silver Lake, Ohio.

Credit: Steve Jackson, University of Wyoming


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Illustration showing mastodons grazing on black ash trees in a Pleistocene swamp.

A gradual dying out of large herbivores about 15,000 years ago lead to the disappearance of certain plant populations, a new study says. The findings contradict previous ideas that climate change could have killed off these plant communities. Here, mastodons graze on black ash trees in a Pleistocene swamp.

Credit: Barry Carlsen; courtesy University of Wisconsin Board of Regents


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