Conservation paleobiology: science and practice
by Dietl, Gregory P. Flessa, Karl W.
Title Statements
- Full title :Conservation paleobiology : science and practice / edited by Gregory P. Dietl and Karl W. Flessa.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
Notes
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.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 v. (xi- 316 p.) : : illustrations ; : 28 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226506692, 022650669X, 9780226506722, 022650672X
- oclc:on1099537778
- LC Classification:QE719.8
- Dewey Decimal:560
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 recorders / Micha Kowalewski ; 2. Conservation biology and environmental change : a paleolimnological perspective / John P. Smol ; 3. Vertebrate fossils and the future of conservation biology / Elizabeth A. Hadly and Anthony D. Barnosky ; 4. Paleoecology and resource management in a dynamic landscape : case studies from the Rocky Mountain headwaters / Stephen T. Jackson, Stephen T. Gray, and Bryan Shuman ; 5. Historical ecology for the paleontologist / Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Loren McClenachan ; 6. The isotopic ecology of fossil vertebrates and conservation paleobiology / Paul 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 assemblages / Susan M. Kidwell ; 8. Using a macroecological approach to the fossil record to help inform conservation biology / S. Kathleen Lyons and Peter J. Wagner -- Section two. Conservation paleobiology in deep time. 9. Seven variati…
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