Reconstructing the spatio-temporal extinction dynamics of the thylacine
Prof Barry Brook1, Dr Jessie Buettel1 1University Of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Prior to European colonization in the early 1800s, Tasmania supported a small but stable population of the cursorial predatory thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). This ‘marsupial wolf’, often called the ‘Tasmanian tiger’, had been extirpated from mainland Australia during the mid-Holocene, after surviving the earlier wave…