How Many Generations are Available for Study? Expectations and Applications of Historical Ecological Insight from Bones Lying on Modern Landscapes
Abstract Skeletal remains lying on landscape surfaces are useful for evaluating historical states of living populations, but across how much … Continue
Paleo-Biological Approaches to Present Day Wetland Ecosystem Restoration Problems
Abstract Establishing historic conditions of a site is frequently the first step in ecosystem restoration. Whether restoration to historic conditions … Continue
The Past as a Lens for Biodiversity Conservation on a Dynamically Changing Planet
Abstract Both climate and land-use change have accelerated over the past decades. The cumulative effects of these disruptions are not … Continue
Pleistocene Disruption of Trait-Environment Relationships Informs the Future Conservation of African Megafauna
Abstract Mammalian megafauna have been critical to the functioning of Earth’s biosphere for millions of years. However, since the Plio-Pleistocene, … Continue
Paleofidelity: An R Package for Measuring and Visualizing Live-Dead Fidelity
Abstract Live-dead fidelity analysis, one of the key approaches of conservation paleobiology, aims to measure the congruence between living communities … Continue
Understanding Botanical Traits of Rancho La Brea Fossils for Conservation Purposes
Abstract The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles is home to over 4 million Pleistocene fossils that … Continue
Monitors with Memories: Death Assemblages Record a Century of Wastewater Pollution and Remediation
Abstract Biotic indices are often used to assess ecological condition using the abundance-weighted stress tolerances of taxa. Applying such indices … Continue
Developing Testable Hypotheses of Anthropogenic Stress: Some Approaches That Work
Abstract Conservation Paleobiology (CPB) has many aims, but ultimately depends upon our uncovering, for a target region, the history of … Continue
Deep Time Conservation Paleobiology of the Atlantic Jigsaw Puzzle and the Future of the Southwestern Angolan Coast
Abstract The puzzle-like fit of Africa and South America reflects the tectonically driven opening of the South Atlantic Ocean beginning … Continue
Parasite Dynamics: One Pattern and Multiple Possible Causes
Abstract How is parasitism likely to respond to anthropogenic global change? Digenean trematode prevalence among bivalve mollusk hosts in multiple … Continue