Event Details

SAAA Lecture: The Demise of Keystone Species during Paleoindian Times

Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm

Location: Flagler Room, Flagler College

Description: The late Pleistocene Southeast had the greatest number and diversity of animal species compared to the rest of North America. By the beginning of the Holocene, the extinction or extirpation of species was greatest in the Southeast. Although many researchers have theorized that wild fire regimes increased due to humans, there is another, more subtle explanation. At the same time many Florida river systems transformed from anastomosing to entrenched channel systems during the Holocene. Could it have been the diminishing population of two keystone species affected by humans, rather than people themselves, that were the inadvertent agents of habitat change?

FPAN is co-hosting this event.