Asynchronous ecological upheavals on the Western Mediterranean islands: New insights on the extinction of their autochthonous small mammals

@article{Valenzuela2021AsynchronousEU,  title={Asynchronous ecological upheavals on the Western Mediterranean islands: New insights on the extinction of their autochthonous small mammals},  author={Alejandro Valenzuela and Enric Torres-Roig and Daniel Zoboli and Gian Luigi Pillola and Josep Antoni Alcover},  journal={The Holocene},  year={2021},  volume={32},  pages={137 - 146},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:244763779}}
It is suggested that Mallorca have been more vulnerable than Sardinia to the external disturbances introduced by humans, and the capacity of each island to absorb external perturbations could be related to the island area, the duration of the isolated evolution and the degree of faunal complexity.
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