illustration of mammal diversity lost in three locations over past 130K years (IMAGE)

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illustration of mammal diversity lost in three locations over past 130K years

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Illustration depicting all mammal species that would inhabit central Colombia (left), Southern California (middle) and New South Wales, Australia, (right) today if not for human-linked range reductions and extinctions from the Late Pleistocene to present.

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Oscar Sanisidro/University of Alcalá

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