[Aqualist] Call for abstracts at the 12th International Mammalogical Congress Perth, WA in 2017

[Chris Turney]

Hi Everyone,


Apologies for any cross-posting.


The 12th International Mammalogical Congress  is taking place in Perth,
Western Australia, during the 9-14 July 2017. Details on the meeting can be
found at http://www.promaco.com.au/IMC12/index.php. Deadline for abstracts
is 28 February.


Alan Cooper (University of Adelaide) and I have a session on the following
topic.


*The role of climate and environmental change in megafaunal extinctions*


Alan Cooper, University of Adelaide, Australia; Chris Turney, University of
New South Wales, Australia.


There is increasing evidence that the tempo and mode of climate and
environmental change were key factors in the different megafaunal
extinction patterns that took place around the world in the Late
Pleistocene and Holocene. New high resolution climate and paleovegetation
records, ancient and modern genetic datasets and analytical approaches, and
improved dating methods are producing a range of detailed datasets from
around the world, including the southern hemisphere. The role of rapid
warming events, and associated vegetation and human activity patterns, has
recently been identified as a key driver in genetic change across Eurasia
and North and South America. This symposium will bring together the latest
research across the paleoclimate, paleovegetation and ecology, genetics and
dating fields with the aim of quantifying the nature of mammalian
population response to a variety of past episodes of environmental change
around the world, with a special emphasis on new data from the southern
hemisphere.


We're really hoping to get a good mix of biologists and climatologists in
the same to together. It would be brilliant to see you there.


All the very best,


Chris


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