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Conservation paleobiology : science and practice

By Gregory P. Dietl (editor); Karl W. Flessa (editor)

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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780226506869, 022650686X
Language
english
Format
PDF
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6 MB (6512340 bytes)
Pages
\329
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2021-11-08 16:56:59

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Contents Foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy Introduction Section One: Conservation Paleobiology in Near Time Chapter One. The youngest fossil record and conservation biology: Holocene shells as eco-environmental recorders / Michał Kowalewski Chapter Two. Conservation biology and environmental change: A paleolimnological perspective / John P. Smol Chapter Three. Vertebrate fossils and the future of conservation biology / Elizabeth A. Hadly and Anthony D. Barnosky Chapter Four. Paleoecology and resource management in a dynamic landscape: Case studies from the Rocky Mountain headwaters / Stephen T. Jackson, Stephen T. Gray, and Bryan Shuman Chapter Five. Historical ecology for the paleontologist / Jeremy B. C. Jackson and Loren McClenachan Chapter Six. The isotopic ecology of fossil vertebrates and conservation paleobiology / Paul L. Koch, Kena Fox-Dobbs, and Seth D. Newsome Chapter Seven. Evaluating human modification of shallow marine ecosystems: Mismatch in composition of molluscan living and time-averaged death assemblages / Susan M. Kidwell Chapter Eight. Using a macroecological approach to the fossil record to help inform conservation biology / S. Kathleen Lyons and Peter J. Wagner Section Two: Conservation Paleobiology in Deep Time Chapter Nine. Seven variations on a recent theme of conservation / Geerat J. Vermeij Chapter Ten. Metaphor, inference, and prediction in paleoecology: Climate change and the Antarctic bottom fauna / Richard B. Aronson Chapter Eleven. Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs / Peter D. Roopnarine Chapter Twelve. Paleobiology and the conservation of the evolving web of life / Gregory P. Dietl Chapter Thirteen. Speciation and shifting baselines: Prospects for reciprocal illumination between evolutionary paleobiology and conservation biology / Warren D. Allmon Section Three: Conservation Paleobiology at Work Chapter Fourteen. Putting the dead to work: Translational paleoecology / Karl W. Flessa Chapter Fifteen. Conservation paleobiology roundtable: From promise to application / Alison G. Boyer, Mark Brenner, David A. Burney, John M. Pandolfi, Michael Savarese, Gregory P. Dietl, and Karl W. Flessa Epilogue. Conservation Paleobiology in the Anthropocene Contributors Acknowledgments Index

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