Table of Contents
Foreword by
Thomas E. Lovejoy Introduction Section One: Conservation Paleobiology in Near Time
1. The youngest fossil record and conservation biology: Holocene shells as eco-environmental recordersMichał Kowalewski
2. Conservation biology and environmental change: A paleolimnological perspectiveJohn P. Smol
3. Vertebrate fossils and the future of conservation biologyElizabeth A. Hadly and Anthony D. Barnosky
4. Paleoecology and resource management in a dynamic landscape: Case studies from the Rocky Mountain headwatersStephen T. Jackson, Stephen T. Gray, and Bryan Shuman
5. Historical ecology for the paleontologistJeremy B. C. Jackson and Loren McClenachan
6. The isotopic ecology of fossil vertebrates and conservation paleobiologyPaul L. Koch, Kena Fox-Dobbs, and Seth D. Newsome
7. Evaluating human modification of shallow marine ecosystems: Mismatch in composition of molluscan living and time-averaged death assemblagesSusan M. Kidwell
8. Using a macroecological approach to the fossil record to help inform conservation biologyS. Kathleen Lyons and Peter J. Wagner Section Two: Conservation Paleobiology in Deep Time 9. Seven variations on a recent theme of conservationGeerat J. Vermeij
10. Metaphor, inference, and prediction in paleoecology: Climate change and the Antarctic bottom faunaRichard B. Aronson
11. Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food websPeter D. Roopnarine
12. Paleobiology and the conservation of the evolving web of lifeGregory P. Dietl
13. Speciation and shifting baselines: Prospects for reciprocal illumination between evolutionary paleobiology and conservation biologyWarren D. Allmon Section Three: Conservation Paleobiology at Work 14. Putting the dead to work: Translational paleoecologyKarl W. Flessa
15. Conservation paleobiology roundtable: From promise to applicationAlison 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 Contributors Acknowledgments Index