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Intro
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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.
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.