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Megadürre vergiftete Dodos mit ihren eigenen Fäkalien.@spektrum.de, 29. April 2015 mit Verweis auf A deadly cocktail: How a drought around 4200 cal. yr BP caused mass mortality events at the infamous ‘dodo swamp’ in Mauritius. (Memento vom 6. Juli 2015 im Internet Archive) „Analyses of pollen, diatoms, XRF geochemistry, and pigments provide a unique window into how an insular ecosystem in Mauritius responded to an extreme drought event 4200 years ago... This prolonged drought around the Indian Ocean is recorded in many regions dependent on monsoon precipitation and is suggested to cause the collapse of human societies in East Africa and India... Abrupt increased aridity induced regional fires on Mauritius and caused decreased water levels, and a shrinking water surface resulting in further concentration of the animals in this coastal site... The ‘4.2 ka megadrought’ likely induced similar bottlenecks elsewhere in the SW Indian Ocean region.“, abgerufen am 30. Mai 2015.
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Megadürre vergiftete Dodos mit ihren eigenen Fäkalien.@spektrum.de, 29. April 2015 mit Verweis auf A deadly cocktail: How a drought around 4200 cal. yr BP caused mass mortality events at the infamous ‘dodo swamp’ in Mauritius. (Memento vom 6. Juli 2015 im Internet Archive) „Analyses of pollen, diatoms, XRF geochemistry, and pigments provide a unique window into how an insular ecosystem in Mauritius responded to an extreme drought event 4200 years ago... This prolonged drought around the Indian Ocean is recorded in many regions dependent on monsoon precipitation and is suggested to cause the collapse of human societies in East Africa and India... Abrupt increased aridity induced regional fires on Mauritius and caused decreased water levels, and a shrinking water surface resulting in further concentration of the animals in this coastal site... The ‘4.2 ka megadrought’ likely induced similar bottlenecks elsewhere in the SW Indian Ocean region.“, abgerufen am 30. Mai 2015.
