What are megafauna and are they cooler than dinosaurs? How did their extinctions affect the ecosystems we interact with today? In the second half we learn from Stu Popp about role playing games and how to balance collaboration with clear story telling.

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Link to public access: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1502540113

Galetti, M., Moleón, M., Jordano, P., Pires, M. M., Guimaraes Jr, P. R., Pape, T., ... & Svenning, J. C. (2018). Ecological and evolutionary legacy of megafauna extinctions. Biological Reviews, 93(2), 845-862.

Link to public access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/152780/1/Galetti_et_al-2018-Biological_Reviews.pdf

Hansen, D. M., & Galetti, M. (2009). The forgotten megafauna. Science, 324(5923), 42-43.

Link to public access: https://ib.rc.unesp.br/Home/Departamentos47/ecologia/labic/hansen_galetti_science.pdf

Smith, F. A., Doughty, C. E., Malhi, Y., Svenning, J. C., & Terborgh, J. (2016). Megafauna in the Earth system. Ecography, 39(2), 99-108.

Link to public access: https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111/ecog.02156

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