[ceevol] EXTINCTION - THE QUATERNARY PERSPECTIVE
- From: "Dempster, Jane" <j.dempster@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ceevol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ceevol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:13:30 +0000
EXTINCTION - THE QUATERNARY PERSPECTIVE
QRA one-day meeting with co-sponsors QUAVER, NERC and the NHM
Wednesday 19 September 2012 at the Natural History Museum, 10 am - 6 pm.
Confirmed speakers:
Tony Stuart (Durham) - Megafaunal extinction and survival, with special
reference to northern Eurasia
Adrian Lister (NHM) - Mammoth extinction, refugia, and the synergy of climate
and people
John Stewart (Bournemouth) & Chris Stringer (NHM) - Range shifts and extinction
of Neanderthals and other human populations in the Late Quaternary.
Ian Barnes (Royal Holloway) - Applying ancient DNA to Late Quaternary
extinctions
Judy Allen, Yvonne Collingham & Brian Huntley (Durham) - Modelling vegetation
change and Late Quaternary extinctions
Martin Street (Neuwied) - Implications of the Western and Central European Late
Upper Palaeolithic archaeological record for Late Quaternary Extinctions
Sam Turvey (ZSL) & Susanne Fritz (Frankfurt) - The ghosts of mammals past:
global patterns of mammalian extinction during the Holocene
Jennifer Crees (Imperial): Large mammal extinctions in Holocene Europe: case
closed?
Kenneth Rijsdijk (Amsterdam) & the Dodo Research Programme team - Climate
induced mass mortality vs. human induced extinction: an interdisciplinary
analysis of a dodo mass grave on Mauritius
Ben Collen, Lucie Bland & Martina Di Fonzo (ZSL) - Wildlife in a changing
world: predicting how populations decline to extinction
Kate Jones (UCL) - Current and future extinctions: windows into the past
For full programme details and registration (required), please go to
http://qra.org.uk/meetings/70
Hope to see you there!
Adrian M Lister
Department of Palaeontology
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5398
fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5546
email: A.Lister@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:A.Lister@xxxxxxxxx>
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