Ecosystems today are under growing pressure, with human domination at many scales. It is
difficult, however, to gauge what has changed or been lost–and why–in the absence of data …

Biologists increasingly appreciate the importance of community-level attributes in the
functioning and temporal turnover of ecosystems, but data other than species richness are …

Seagrass meadows are marine habitats with high ecological importance. Their detection in
the fossil record will contribute to our understanding of the development of patterns of …

Coralligenous assemblages are biogenic calcareous formations endemic of the
Mediterranean Sea, produced by the aggregation of calcareous red algae and other …

Environmental impact assessments require pre-impact data to discriminate between natural
and anthropogenic sources of community shifts. True pre-impact data, however, are rarely …

Life–death (LD) studies of shelly macrofauna are important to evaluate how well a fossil
assemblage can reflect the original living community, but can also serve as a proxy for …

Paleobiological and paleoecological interpretations rely on constraining the temporal
resolution of the fossil record. The taphonomic clock, that is, a correlation between the …

Although the fossil record preserves a wealth of historical data about past ecosystems, the
current paradigm, which postulates that fossils provide faithful archives of ecological …

Integrating analysis of the benthic palaeoecological record with multivariate ordination
techniques represents a powerful synergy able to provide an improved characterization of …

Carbonate sediments in non‐vegetated habitats on the north‐east Adriatic shelf are
dominated by shells of molluscs. However, the rate of carbonate molluscan production prior …