Megafauna and Ecosystem Function: From the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
International Conference: March 2014
Day 1: Causes and impacts of megafaunal loss
| Introduction: Ghosts of lost giants: what it means to live in a megafauna - depleted world, and what can or should be done? |
Yadvinder Malhli |
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| Mammoth extinction, refugia, and the effects of climate and people | Adrian Lister |
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| Ancient DNA reveals past global population dynamics links to climate-driven range dynamics | David Nogués-Bravo | Slides | Audio |
| The case for Clovis overkill in North America | Todd Surovell | Slides | Audio |
| Ecological state changes and megafaunal extinctions in southern Patagonia, South America | Natalia Villavicencio | Slides | Audio |
| Anthropogenic drivers of megafaunal extinction: support from a high resolution, quantitative global analysis | Lewis Bartlett | Slides | Audio |
| Global Late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change | Christopher J. Sandom | Slides unavailable | Audio |
| Radiocarbon chronology of extinct and surviving megafauna in Northern Eurasia | Anthony Stuart | Slides | Audio |
| Recalibrating the Anthropocene: humans, megafauna and global biogeochemical cycles | Felisa Smith | Slides | Audio |
| Predator-prey dynamics in late Pleistocene North America | Blaire Van Valkenburgh | Slides | Audio |
| Megafaunal extinction and its impact on mammalian community structure | Kathleen Lyons | Slides | Audio |
| Estimated loss in species, phylogenetic and functional diversity in mammals as a consequence of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene range collapses and extinctions | Søren Faurby | Slides unavailable | Audio |
| Megafauna and ecosystem dynamics in the Plio-Pleistocene: insights from the Italian fossil record | Carlo Meloro | Slides | Audio |
| Marine megafaunal extinctions and trophic cascades: what really happened to Steller's sea cow? | James Estes | Slides | Audio |
| Trophic downgrading: the influence of the terminal Pleistocene extinction on the North American carnivore guild | Melissa I. Pardi | Slides unavailable | Audio |
Day 2: Environmental impacts of megafaunal loss
| Ecological impacts of extinction of Australia's Pleistocene megafauna | Christopher Johnson | Slides | Audio |
| A natural experiment in keystone herbivore removal: Pleistocene extinctions, novel communities, and enhanced fire regimes in North America | Jacquelyn Gill | Slides | Audio |
| Temperate mountain grasslands as ghosts of megafauna past | Travis W. Knowles | Slides | Audio |
| Nutrient dispersal by megafauna: are nutrient limitations a consequence of the Pleistocene extinctions? | Chris Doughty | Slides | Audio |
| Decline of large herbivores: impact on vegetation in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems | Liesbeth Bakker | Slides unavailable | Audio |
| Pre-extinction interglacial ecosystem structure - the European case and global perspectives | Jens-Christian Svenning | Slides | Audio |
| The rapid decline of Asia's megafauna and its consequences for seed dispersal | Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz | Slides | Audio |
| Pleistocene megafauna extinctions: functional loss of mutualistic seed dispersal services. | Mauro Galetti | Slides | Audio |
| Reconstructing past ecological networks: the reconfiguration of seed-dispersal interactions after megafaunal extinction | Mathias M. Pires | Slides | Audio |
| Differential impacts of Pleistocene mega-herbivores on nitrogen availability | Elizabeth S. Jeffers | Slides | Audio |
| Lateral transport of nutrients by herbivores: local impacts and global perspectives | Adam Wolf | Slides | Audio |
| Should we bring back the European megafauna? | George Monbiot | Audio |
Day 3: Megafauna and ecosystem function in the Anthropocene
| Differential defaunation and extinction of ecological processes: consequences for ecosystems and humans | Rodolfo Dirzo | Slides unavailable | Audio |
| Effects of soaring elephant numbers on South African savanna habitats | Greg Asner | Slides unavailable | Audio |
| Low tree diversity of Central African forests: artefact of history or product of filtering by megafauna? | John Terborgh | Slides | Audio |
| Contemporary large vertebrate defaunation modulates tropical forest ecosystem services | Carlos Peres | Slides unavailable | Audio |
| 30 years of rewilding in the Netherlands: the impact of herbivores on closed canopy forest | Frans Vera | Slides | Audio |
| Lessons and future prospects from a Pleistocene rewilding in Siberia | Sergey Zimov | Slides | Audio |
| The science of science fiction: bringing back the mammoth | Beth Shapiro | Slides | Audio |
| Re-wildling visions and controversy: unsettling the conservation regime | Paul Jepson | Video |
| Massive loss of forests elephants in central Africa | Fiona Maisels | Slides | Audio |
| Rewilding: nine key challenges | Meredith Root-Bernstein | Slides | Audio |
| Rewilding Scotland | Chris Sandom | Slides | Audio |
| A role for rewilding in English nature conservation pract
ice? | Keith Kirby | Slides | Audio |
| The politics of rewilding and reintroduction: the lion and the cheetah in India | Maan Barua | Slides | Audio |
| Rewilding in a crisis discipline | Josh Donlan | Slides | Audio |
| Closing speech: Emerging thoughts on a past fit for the future | David Macdonald | Slides unavailable | Audio |
