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. 2024 Nov 15;10(46):eadp6579. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adp6579

Fig. 3. Late Pleistocene paleoecological and paleoclimatic records from this study and existing ones from the broader Lutruwitan/Tasmanian region.

Fig. 3.

(A to C) Vegetation and fire activity changes compared to changes in sea level (3), alkenone sea surface temperatures, and LC-driven precipitation changes inferred from G. ruber planktonic foraminifera in marine core 2611 offshore southern Australia (33, 61). Total percentage pollen of rainforest taxa from core SO 36-7SL offshore western Lutruwita (34) and rainfall reconstruction from core Fr1/94-GC3 in southeast Lutruwita (28) is also shown. The red dotted line indicates the period of human arrival at ~41.6 ka (see Fig. 4). (D to G) Summary illustration of vegetation, climate, and development of Bassian Land Bridge from ~50 to 18 ka. Maps were created using the QGIS sea level tool plugin (62).