The Annotated Budak has an absolutely wonderful post on megafauna, hominid impacts, biodiversity and biogeography up. Go read it immediately.
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Interesting. I have a project coming up in south east Asia looking at biodiversity, land use, socio-economic trends, and climate change. To paraphrase old what's his face "it is the best of worlds, it is the worst of worlds".
Thanks for the plug! The credit goes to Corlett though for his years of work in the region.