Chapter Three. Vertebrate fossils and the future of conservation biology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Section One. Conservation Paleobiology in Near Time
6. Introduction 5
7. Chapter One. The youngest fossil record and conservation biology: Holocene shells as eco-environmental recorders 7
8. Chapter Two. Conservation biology and environmental change: A paleolimnological perspective 31
9. Chapter Three. Vertebrate fossils and the future of conservation biology 45
10. Chapter Four Paleoecology and resource management in a dynamic landscape: Case studies from the Rocky Mountain headwaters 67
11. Chapter Five Historical ecology for the paleontologist 87
12. Chapter Six The isotopic ecology of fossil vertebrates and conservation paleobiology 101
13. Chapter Seven Evaluating human modification of shallow marine ecosystems: Mismatch in composition of molluscan living and time-averaged death assemblages 119
14. Chapter Eight Using a macroecological approach to the fossil record to help inform conservation biology 147
15. Section Two Conservation Paleobiology in Deep Time
16. Introduction 171
17. Chapter Nine Seven variations on a recent theme of conservation 173
18. Chapter Ten Metaphor, inference, and prediction in paleoecology: Climate change and the Antarctic bottom fauna 183
19. Chapter Eleven Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs 201
20. Chapter Twelve Paleobiology and the conservation of the evolving web of life 227
21. Chapter Thirteen Speciation and shifting baselines: Prospects for reciprocal illumination between evolutionary paleobiology and conservation biology 251
22. Section Three Conservation Paleobiology at Work
23. Introduction 281
24. Chapter Fourteen Putting the dead to work: Translational paleoecology 283
25. Chapter Fifteen Conservation paleobiology roundtable: From promise to application 291
26. Epilogue Conservation Paleobiology in the Anthropocene 303
27. Contributors 307
28. Acknowledgments 309
29. Index 311