And extirpation of a connected population from its (substantial) range is an OK proxy.
I’m not a paleontologist, but don’t we see species suddenly vanish from their ranges all the time even excluding the mass extinction events? How do we know that some of these extirpations are not pandemics?
I’m not a paleontologist, but don’t we see species suddenly vanish from their ranges all the time even excluding the mass extinction events? How do we know that some of these extirpations are not pandemics?