Conservation paleobiology science and practice / edited by Gregory P. Dietl and Karl W. Flessa.
| Other author | Dietl, Gregory P. |
| Other author | Flessa, Karl W. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. |
| Description | xi, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Conservation paleobiology in near time. The youngest fossil record and conservation biology: holocene shells as eco-environmental recorders / Micha Kowalewski ; Conservation biology and environmental change: a paleolimnological perspective / John P. Smol ; Vertebrate fossils and the future of conservation biology / Elizabeth A. Hadly and Anthony D. Barnosky ; Paleoecology and resource management in a dynamic landscape: case studies from the Rocky Mountain headwaters / Stephen T. Jackson, Stephen T. Gray, and Bryan Shuman ; Historical ecology for the paleontologist / Jeremy B. C. Jackson and Loren McClenachan ; The isotopic ecology of fossil vertebrates and conservation paleobiology / Paul L. Koch, Kena Fox-Dobbs, and Seth D. Newsome ; Evaluating human modification of shallow marine ecosystems: mismatch in composition of molluscan living and time-averaged death assemblages / Susan M. Kidwell ; Using a macroecological approach to the fossil record to help inform conservation biology / S. Kathleen Lyons and Peter J. Wagner -- Conservation paleobiology in deep time. Seven variations on a recent theme of conservation / Geerat J. Vermeij ; Metaphor, inference, and prediction in paleoecology: climate change and the Antarctic bottom fauna / Richard B. Aronson ; Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs / Peter D. Roopnarine ; Paleobiology and the conservation of the evolving web of life / Gregory P. Dietl ; Speciation and shifting baselines: prospects for reciprocal illumination between evolutionary paleobiology and conservation biology / Warren D. Allmon -- Conservation paleobiology at work. Putting the dead to work: translational paleoecology / Karl W. Flessa ; Conservation paleobiology roundtable: from promise to application / Alison G. Boyer, Mark Brenner, David A. Burney, John M. Pandolfi, Michael Savarese, Gregory P. Dietl and Karl W. Flessa -- Epilogue: conservation paleobiology in the anthropocene. |
| General note | "This book is an expanded reprint of the proceedings of a short course entitled "Conservation Paleobiology: Using the Past to Manage for the Future" that ... was convened at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon, in 2009"--ECIP information. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017013691 |
| ISBN | 9780226506692 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780226506722 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |