BioOne Online Journals - Linking Top-Down Forces to the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions

BioOne Online Journals - Linking Top-Down Forces to the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions: "Humans, in conjunction with natural top-down processes and through a sequence of cascading trophic interactions, may have contributed to the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions. The arrival of the first humans, as hunters and scavengers, through top-down forcing, could have triggered a population collapse of large herbivores and their predators."