THURSDAY TALKS: 4 JULY 2024 Professor Steve Webb
Location
ANBG Theatrette
About
‘Empty deserts: Megafauna Demography and Extinction”
Did mankind kill megafauna, or was it four great Ice Ages that caused Australia’s megafauna extinction? In the talk Steve, Adjunct Professor of Australian Studies at Bond University, will outline the biogeography and general disposition of the megafauna and their predisposition leading to their extinction as he views it.
Link to Steve's book Corridors to Extinction https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780124077904/corridors-to-extinction-and-the-australian-megafauna
Steve will lead a walk among the megafauna after the talk.
Did mankind kill megafauna, or was it four great Ice Ages that caused Australia’s megafauna extinction? In the talk Steve, Adjunct Professor of Australian Studies at Bond University, will outline the biogeography and general disposition of the megafauna and their predisposition leading to their extinction as he views it.
Link to Steve's book Corridors to Extinction https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780124077904/corridors-to-extinction-and-the-australian-megafauna
Steve will lead a walk among the megafauna after the talk.