Research Catalog

Title

Conservation paleobiology : science and practice / edited by Gregory P. Dietl and Karl W. Flessa.

Publication

• Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Dietl, Gregory P.
• Flessa, Karl W.

Description

xi, 316 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm

Subjects

• Conservation biology
• Paleobiology
• Paleoecology

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"--Introduction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Michał 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 variations on a recent theme of conservation / Geerat J. Vermeij ; 10. Metaphor, inference, and prediction in paleoecology : climate change and the Antarctic bottom fauna / Richard B. Aronson ; 11. Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs / Peter D. Roopnarine ; 12. Paleobiology and the conservation of the evolving web of life / Gregory P. Dietl ; 13. Speciation and shifting baselines : prospects for reciprocal illumination between evolutionary paleobiology and conservation biology / Warren D. Allmon -- Section three. Conservation paleobiology at work. 14. Putting the dead to work : translational paleoecology / Karl W. Flessa ; 15. 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.

ISBN

• 9780226506692
• 022650669X
• 9780226506722
• 022650672X
• 9780226506869 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2017013691
• 99975772340

OCLC

• ocn975445202
• 975445202
• SCSB-8968790

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries