| Description |
xi, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Conservation paleobiology in near time. The youngest fossil record and conservation biology: holocene shells as eco-environmental recorders / Micha Kowalewski Conservation biology and environmental change: a paleolimnological perspective / John P. Smol Vertebrate fossils and the future of conservation biology / Elizabeth A. Hadly and Anthony D. Barnosky Paleoecology and resource management in a dynamic landscape: case studies from the Rocky Mountain headwaters / Stephen T. Jackson, Stephen T. Gray, and Bryan Shuman Historical ecology for the paleontologist / Jeremy B. C. Jackson and Loren McClenachan The isotopic ecology of fossil vertebrates and conservation paleobiology / Paul L. Koch, Kena Fox-Dobbs, and Seth D. Newsome Evaluating human modification of shallow marine ecosystems: mismatch in composition of molluscan living and time-averaged death assemblages / Susan M. Kidwell Using a macroecological approach to the fossil record to help inform conservation biology / S. Kathleen Lyons and Peter J. Wagner -- Conservation paleobiology in deep time. Seven variations on a recent theme of conservation / Geerat J. Vermeij Metaphor, inference, and prediction in paleoecology: climate change and the Antarctic bottom fauna / Richard B. Aronson Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs / Peter D. Roopnarine Paleobiology and the conservation of the evolving web of life / Gregory P. Dietl Speciation and shifting baselines: prospects for reciprocal illumination between evolutionary paleobiology and conservation biology / Warren D. Allmon -- Conservation paleobiology at work. Putting the dead to work: translational paleoecology / Karl W. Flessa 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 |
| Notes |
"This book is an expanded reprint of the proceedings of a short course entitled "Conservation Paleobiology: Using the Past to Manage for the Future" that ... was convened at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon, in 2009"--ECIP information |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Paleobiology.
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Paleoecology.
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Conservation biology.
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| Author |
Dietl, Gregory P., editor
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Flessa, Karl W., editor
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| LC no. |
2017013691 |
| ISBN |
9780226506692 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780226506722 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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