Comment on "Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover"

Science. 2016 Feb 26;351(6276):927. doi: 10.1126/science.aad3573.

Abstract

Cooper et al. (Research Article, 7 August 2015, p. 602) combined the annual-layer-counted Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 with chronological information from the Hulu Cave and Cariaco Basin records to produce a "revised" time scale. We argue that their time scale is incompatible with the nature of annual-layer-counted time scales and may lead to seriously flawed conclusions if used elsewhere at face value.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Extinction, Biological*
  • Global Warming / history*
  • Humans