Publications — extinctions

  1. Llewelyn, J, C Mudge, F Saltré, AE Reside, V Weisbecker, CR Dickman, CJA Bradshaw. 2025. Trophic and taxonomic restructuring of Sahul’s large-bodied animal community since the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary Australasia 42: 16-24
  2. Turner, A, G Heard, R Mathwin, CJA Bradshaw, A Hall, S Wassens. 2025. Cool-season environmental water delivery increases extinction risk for chytrid-infected amphibians. Conservation Science and Practice 7: e70022. doi:10.1111/csp2.70022
  3. Mulà, C, CJA Bradshaw, M Cabeza, F Manca, S Montano, G Strona. 2025. Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation. Nature Ecology and Evolution 9: 822-832. doi:10.1038/s41559-025-02667-x
  4. Manca, F, L Benedetti-Cecchi, CJA Bradshaw, M Cabeza, C Gustafsson, A Norkko, T Roslin, DN Thomas, L White, G Strona. 2024. Projected loss of brown macroalgae and seagrasses with global environmental change. Nature Communications doi:10.1038/s41467-024-48273-6
  5. Bradshaw, CJA, F Saltré, SA Crabtree, C Reepmeyer, T Moutsiou. 2024. Small populations of palaeolithic humans in Cyprus hunted endemic megafauna to extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20240967. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.0967
  6. Strona, G, CJA Bradshaw, P Cardoso, NJ Gotelli, F Guillaume, F Manca, V Mustonen, L Zaman. 2023. Time-travelling pathogens and their risk to ecological communities. PLoS Computational Biology 19: e1011268. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011268
  7. Doherty, S, F Saltré, J Llewelyn, G Strona, SE Williams, CJA Bradshaw. 2023. Estimating co-extinction threats in terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 29: 5122-5138. doi:10.1111/gcb.16836
  8. Strona, G, CJA Bradshaw. 2022. Co-extinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land-use change. Science Advances doi:10.1126/sciadv.abn4345 (highlighted in Nature Climate Change and Current Biology)
  9. Llewelyn, J, G Strona, MC McDowell, CN Johnson, KJ Peters, DB Stouffer, SN de Visser, F Saltré, CJA Bradshaw. 2022. Sahul’s megafauna species were vulnerable to plant-community changes due to their position in the trophic network. Ecography 2002: e06089. doi:10.1111/ecog.06089 [PDF]
  10. Bradshaw, CJA, PR Ehrlich, A Beattie, G Ceballos, E Crist, J Diamond, R Dirzo, AH Ehrlich, J Harte, ME Harte, G Pyke, PH Raven, WJ Ripple, F Saltré, C Turnbull, M Wackernagel, DT Blumstein. 2021. Response: Commentary: Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2: 700869. doi:10.3389/fcosc.2021.700869 [PDF]
  11. Bradshaw, CJA, CN Johnson, J Llewelyn, V Weisbecker, G Strona, F Saltré. 2021. Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul’s megafauna. eLife 10: e63870. doi:10.7554/eLife.63870 [PDF] (highlighted in Nature Index)
  12. Bradshaw, CJA, PR Ehrlich, A Beattie, G Ceballos, E Crist, J Diamond, R Dirzo, AH Ehrlich, J Harte, ME Harte, G Pyke, PH Raven, WJ Ripple, F Saltré, C Turnbull, M Wackernagel, DT Blumstein. 2021. Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1: 615419. doi:10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419 [PDF] (recommended in Faculty Opinions)
  13. Bradshaw, CJA. 2020. Grand challenges in global biodiversity threats. Frontiers in Conservation Science 1: 609007. doi:10.3389/fcosc.2020.609007 [PDF]
  14. Saltré, F, J Chadoeuf, KJ Peters, MC McDowell, T Friedrich, A Timmermann, S Ulm, CJA Bradshaw. 2019. Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna-extinction patterns. Nature Communications 10: 5311. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13277-0 [PDF] (highlighted in Nature Index)
  15. Peters, KJ, F Saltré, T Friedrich, Z Jacobs, R Wood, MC McDowell, S Ulm, CJA Bradshaw. 2019. FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul. Scientific Data 6:272. doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0267-3 [PDF]
  16. Strona, G, CJA Bradshaw. 2018. Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change. Scientific Reports 8: 16724. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-35068-1 [PDF]
  17. White, LC, F Saltré, CJA Bradshaw, JJ Austin. 2018. High-quality fossil dates support a synchronous, Late Holocene extinction of devils and thylacines in mainland Australia. Biology Letters 14: 20170642. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0642 [PDF]
  18. Deane, DC, DA Fordham, F He, CJA Bradshaw. 2017. Future extinction risk for wetland plants is higher from individual patch loss than total area reduction. Biological Conservation 209: 27-33. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2017.02.005 [PDF]
  19. Rodríguez-Rey, M, S Herrando-Pérez, …, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates. Scientific Data 3:160053. doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.53 [PDF]
  20. Metcalf, JL, CSM Turney, R Barnett, F Martin, S Bray, JT Vilstrup, L Orlando, R Salas-Gismondi, D Loponte, M Medina, M De Nigris, T Civalero, P Marcelo Fernandez, A Gasco, V Duran, KL Seymour, C Otaola, A Gil, R Paunero, FJ Prevost, CJA Bradshaw, … 2016. Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation. Science Advances 2: e1501682. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501682 [PDF]
  21. Johnson, CN, …, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20152399. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2399 [PDF]
  22. Saltré, F, Rodríguez-Rey, M, …, CJA Bradshaw. 2016. Climate change not to blame for Late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia. Nature Communications 7: 10511. doi:10.1038/ncomms10511 [PDF]
  23. Cooper, A, CSM Turney, BW Brook, G McDonald, KA Hughen, CJA Bradshaw. 2015. Abrupt warmings drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover. Science 349: 602-606. doi:10.1126/science.aac4315 [PDF]
  24. Prowse, TAA, CN Johnson, CJA Bradshaw, BW Brook. 2014. An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator-prey interactions in Holocene Australia. Ecology 95: 693-702. doi:10.1890/13-0746.1 (highlighted in Science) [PDF]
  25. Gibson, L, AJ Lynam, CJA Bradshaw, F He, DP Bickford, DS Woodruff, S Bumrungsri, WF Laurance. 2013. Near-complete extinction of native small mammal fauna 25 years following forest fragmentation. Science 341: 1508-1510. doi:10.1126/science.1240495 (highlighted in Nature; highlighted in Current Biology) [PDF]
  26. Johnson, CN, CJA Bradshaw, … 2013. Rapid megafaunal extinction following human arrival throughout the New World. Quaternary International 308/309: 273-277. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.06.022 [PDF]
  27. Brook, BW, CJA Bradshaw, … 2013. Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 110: E3368. doi:10.1073/pnas.1309226110 [PDF]
  28. Adler, CJ, K Dobney, LS Weyrich, J Kaidonis, AW Walker, W Haak, CJA Bradshaw, … 2013. Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions. Nature Genetics 45: 450-455. doi:10.1038/ng.2536 (highlighted in Science; recommended in F1000) [PDF]
  29. Prowse, TAA, CN Johnson, RC Lacy, CJA Bradshaw, JP Pollak, MJ Watts, BW Brook. 2013. No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multi-species metamodels. Journal of Animal Ecology 82: 355-364. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12029 [PDF]
  30. Bradshaw, CJA, et al. 2012. Robust estimates of extinction time in the geological record. Quaternary Science Reviews 33: 14-19. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.11.021 [PDF]
  31. Field, IC, MG Meekan, RC Buckworth, CJA Bradshaw. 2009. Susceptibility of sharks, rays and chimaeras to global extinction. Advances in Marine Biology 56: 275-363. doi:10.1016/S0065-2881(09)56004-X [PDF]
  32. Bradshaw, CJA, BW Brook. 2009. The Cronus hypothesis – extinction as a necessary and dynamic balance to evolutionary diversification. Journal of Cosmology 2: 221-229 [PDF]
  33. Warkentin, IG, D Bickford, NS Sodhi, CJA Bradshaw. 2009. Eating frogs to extinction. Conservation Biology 23: 1056-1059 [PDF]
  34. Bradshaw, CJA, NS Sodhi, BW Brook. 2009. Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in progress. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 79-87 [PDF]
  35. Brook, BW, NS Sodhi, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Synergies among extinction drivers under global change. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 453-460 [PDF] (Web of Science Essential Science Indicators ‘Highly Cited Paper’)
  36. Bickford, D, LP Koh, TM Lee, AC Diesmos, Sodhi, NS, CH Sekercioglu, BW Brook, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Forgetting habitat loss in amphibian extinctions – missing the forest for the disease. PLoS Biology [PDF]
  37. Sodhi, NS, D Bickford, AC Diesmos, TM Lee, LP Koh, BW Brook, CH Sekercioglu, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Measuring the meltdown: drivers of global amphibian extinction and decline. PLoS One 3(2): e1636 [PDF]
  38. Sodhi, NS, LP Koh, KS-H Peh, HTW Tan, RL Chazdon, RT Corlett, TM Lee, RK Colwell, BW Brook, CH Sekercioglu, CJA Bradshaw. 2008. Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms. Diversity and Distributions 14: 1-10. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00398.x [PDF]
  39. Otway, NM, CJA Bradshaw, RG Harcourt. 2004. Estimating the rate of quasi-extinction of the Australian grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) population using deterministic age- and stage-classified models. Biological Conservation 119: 341-350 [PDF]