I would fully support it. Megafauna today are key to ecosystem functioning today (google "ecosystem engineers") where they are still extant, and places where they are missing (almost everywhere outside of Africa and tropical Asia) you find plants without dispersers (google Ghosts of Evolution) and generally unnatural plant communities that have arisen in the absence of ecosystem engineers (i.e., there really isn't any wilderness left, it's all been reshaped by recent extinction).
Further, people are the ones who killed off the megafauna. High resolution, quantitative records have clarified the timing and order of human arrival, megafaunal extinction, and the subsequent changes in vegetation and fire regimes, all during periods of stable climate- evidence that humans were both necessary and sufficient to induce megafaunal extinctions:
North America : http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5956/1100.short
Australia, North American, & elsewhere http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6075/1452.full
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Thomas Landrain <thomas.landrain@gmail.com> wrote:
--Hello guys,I need your assistance. I have been invited to give a talk in a big conference in Cambridge (UK) as a representative of young professionals ;) on how Synthetic Biology and Conservation can be linked together to save or improve the biodiversity on our planet. I'd be very interested in your opinion on the following questions:- if you were to revive one single species, which one should it be?- would you welcome such initiative or condemn it?- what application or abuse can you imagine of such a technology?I have compiled those questions and more in this web interface. Don't hesitate to use it and share it.
Thanks a lot!!The conference is organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society. You can find a description of it on this link:Thomas
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