We propose defining a field of research called 'archaeoecology'that examines the past~ 60
000 years of interactions between humans and ecosystems to better understand the human …

Ancient plant–insect herbivore associations can be studied directly through observation of
feeding damage scars on well-preserved leaf adpression fossils. Early work on insect …

The geographic ranges of marine organisms, including planktonic foraminifera, diatoms,
dinoflagellates, copepods and fish, are shifting polewards owing to anthropogenic climate …

The history of Earth's biodiversity is punctuated episodically by mass extinctions. These are
characterized by major declines of taxon richness, but the accompanying ecological …

Plant–insect associations have been a significant component of terrestrial ecology for more
than 400 Myr. Exploring these interactions in the fossil record through novel perspectives …

That the activities of organisms influence their surrounding ecological communities, and the
environment, has long been appreciated by palaeontologists, as has the role of these …

Conservation palaeobiology informs conservation and restoration of ecosystems by using
the fossil record to discriminate between baseline and novel states and to assess ecosystem …

Plants and their insect herbivores have been a dominant component of the terrestrial
ecological landscape for the past 410 million years and feature intricate evolutionary …

Ecosystem structure—that is the species present, the functions they represent, and how
those functions interact—is an important determinant of community stability. This in turn …

Invertebrate bioerosion on fossil bone can contribute to reconstructions of benthic taxonomic
assemblages and inform us about oxygenation levels, water depth and exposure time on the …