Bridging the Gap Between Conservation Paleobiology and Resource Management: Recognizing the Past is the Key to the Future
Abstract A persistent challenge for conservation paleobiologists is communication of information on past environmental changes to resource managers in a … Continue
Metabarcoding of American Mink Scat to Explore Shifting Baselines in the Gulf of Maine
Abstract The mink (Neogale sp.) has been important species in North American ecosystems and communities for millennia; before European colonization, … Continue
Community Abundance and Environmental Monitoring to Support Coral Reef Management in East Portland Special Fishery Conservation Area, Jamaica
Abstract Global warming and human impacts continue to be devastating for coral reef systems. Jamaican reefs have been adversely affected … Continue
Long-Term Change in Caribbean Reef Water Quality and Ecosystem Health
Abstract Caribbean coral reef ecosystems have declined dramatically since systematic monitoring began in the 1970s. Over the past 50 years, … Continue
Examining the Biogeographic History and Evolution of Otters in the Americas to Identify Conservation Solutions
Abstract Anthropogenic impacts affect nearly every living species. The habitats and ranges of many taxa are now so modified that … Continue
Small Biological Preserves and Smaller Mammals: Can Protected Areas in Our Most Populous Regions Conserve Historic Community Composition?
Abstract The multi-faceted impacts of the Anthropocene are increasingly modifying natural ecosystems and threatening biodiversity. Protected spaces in and adjacent … Continue
Body Size Estimation in Toads (Anura: Bufonidae): Applicability to the Fossil Record
Abstract Organisms’ body size is an important biological trait that is related to the environment and constrained by physiology. It … Continue
Small Mammal Hypsodonty Ratios Do Not Track Precipitation Changes at Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming
Abstract With future climate change, drought events are expected to increase. Hypsodonty is an adaptation in herbivorous mammals for higher … Continue
Conservation Paleobiology and Taphonomy: Differential Preservation and Time-Averaging of Echinoids and Mollusks
Abstract Fossils from surficial death assemblages and shallow cores are an important archive used in the field of conservation paleobiology. … Continue
Molluscs Across Space and Through Time in a Hypersaline Coastal Lagoon, Mexico
Abstract Biotic remains have been used in paleoecological studies to provide information on past environmental conditions. Death assemblages can be … Continue