Looking Back for the future: The ecology of terrestrial communities through the lens of conservation Paleobiology

ME Kemp, AE Boville, CM Carneiro… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Terrestrial ecosystems encompass a vast and vital component of Earth's biodiversity and
ecosystem services. The effect of increased anthropogenic dominance on terrestrial …

Knowing but not doing: Quantifying the research-implementation gap in conservation paleobiology

DV Groff, C McDonough MacKenzie, JQ Pier… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Conservation paleobiology aims to provide a longer-term perspective on environmental
problems to inform decisions about natural resource conservation. As such, conservation …

BioDeepTime: A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages

J Smith, MC Rillo, ÁT Kocsis… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation We have little understanding of how communities respond to varying magnitudes
and rates of environmental perturbations across temporal scales. BioDeepTime harmonizes …

Shark teeth zinc isotope values document intrapopulation foraging differences related to ontogeny and sex

J McCormack, M Karnes, D Haulsee, D Fox… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Trophic ecology and resource use are challenging to discern in migratory marine species,
including sharks. However, effective management and conservation strategies depend on …

Interactive effects of temperature, aridity, and plant stoichiometry on insect herbivory: past and present

A Swain, LE Azevedo-Schmidt… - The American …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
The influence of climate on deep-time plant-insect interactions is becoming increasingly well
known, with temperature, CO2 increases (and associated stoichiometric changes in plants) …

Turning setbacks into step**-stones for growth in conservation paleobiology

GL Wingard, CL Schneider, GP Dietl… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Conservation paleobiology is a cross-disciplinary field that utilizes the geohistorical record
of past life on Earth to inform present-day decisions in conservation and restoration and …

Practitioner perspectives on the application of palaeoecology in nature conservation

B Siggery, H Bennion, S Morse, R Murphy… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
It is widely recognised that palaeoecology holds great potential to inform and support nature
conservation, but that there are difficulties in knowledge exchange between academia and …

New and emerging technologies in paleontology and paleobiology: A horizon scanning review

AA Abdelhady, B Seuss, S Jain… - Journal of African Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
A systematic horizon scanning was undertaken to identify the up-to-date perspectives on
paleontological research. A summarized evaluation (applicability and acceptability) was …

Ghost introgression facilitates genomic divergence of a sympatric cryptic lineage in Cycas revoluta

JT Chang, K Nakamura, CT Chao, MX Luo… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A cryptic lineage is a genetically diverged but morphologically unrecognized variant of a
known species. Clarifying cryptic lineage evolution is essential for quantifying species …

Better together: Building an engaged conservation paleobiology science for the future

GP Dietl, SR Durham, C Clark… - Ecological Solutions and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Making decisions about natural resource conservation is often difficult because of a lack of
longer‐term data, which are needed to provide a frame of reference for identifying and …