What's been lost in mammal diversity in three locations (IMAGE)

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What's been lost in mammal diversity in three locations

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Illustration depicting all mammal species that would inhabit Southern California (top), New South Wales, Australia, (middle) and central Colombia (bottom) 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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