title: Response to Comment on "Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover".
abstract: Rasmussen and Svensson correctly point out that there is currently no satisfactory method to fully align the Greenland and Cariaco Basin records of climate change. However, our approach using interstadial onsets as tie-points allows direct comparison between radiocarbon dates and Greenland climate records. Crucially, both the standard Greenland and the merged Greenland-Cariaco time scales show that interstadial warming was associated with megafaunal genetic transitions.
authors.affiliation: University of Adelaide, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Environment Institute, Adelaide, Australia. alan.cooper@adelaide.edu.au.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.affiliation: Climate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Turney
authors.affiliation: Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Konrad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hughen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D057232:Global Warming / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans