Understanding the long-term effects of ongoing global environmental change on marine
ecosystems requires a cross-disciplinary approach. Deep-time and recent fossil records can …

Shark populations have been decimated in recent decades because of overfishing and
other anthropogenic stressors; however, the long-term impacts of such changes in marine …

Preexploitation shark baselines and the history of human impact on coral reef–associated
shark communities in the Caribbean are poorly understood. We recovered shark dermal …

Direct observations of marine ecosystems are inherently limited in their temporal scope. Yet,
ongoing global anthropogenic change urgently requires improved understanding of long …

Molecular phylogenies suggest some major radiations of open-ocean fish clades occurred
roughly coincident with the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K/Pg) boundary, however the timing …

Chondrichthyans have a long evolutionary history, reaching back over 450 million years.
Despite the longevity of the chondrichthyan fossil record, it is remarkably incomplete. This …

Marine ecosystem models predict a decline in fish production with anthropogenic ocean
warming, but how fish production equilibrates to warming on longer timescales is unclear …

Historical ecology draws on a broad range of information sources and methods to provide
insight into ecological and social change, especially over the past∼ 12000 yr. While its …

Microfossils of fish teeth and denticles, referred to as ichthyoliths, provide critical information
for depositional ages, paleo‐environments, and marine ecosystems, especially in pelagic …

It is challenging to assess long‐term trends in mobile, long‐lived and relatively rare species
such as sharks. Despite ongoing declines in many coastal shark populations, conventional …