Conservation paleobiology (Paleontology 🦕)
Conservation paleobiology is a field of paleontology that applies the knowledge of the geological and paleoecological record to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Despite the influence of paleontology on ecological sciences can be traced back at least at the 18th century, the current field has b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_paleobiology
#ConservationPaleobiology #Paleontology #ConservationBiology
These days I am assisting my PhD student Shirin Rahman in collecting material on the history of #whale populations in the North Sea. The ecological baselines for the conditions of the populations prior to the human impact can be partially reconstructed thanks to the dedicated work of museums and curators. We just finished sampling at Natural History Museum in London. #Odontoceti #ConservationPaleobiology @utrechtuniversity
Conservation paleobiology (Paleontology 🦕)
Conservation paleobiology is a field of paleontology that applies the knowledge of the geological and paleoecological record to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Despite the influence of paleontology on ecological sciences can be traced back at least at the 18th century, the current field has b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_paleobiology
#ConservationPaleobiology #Paleontology #ConservationBiology
We Need to Think about Conservation on a Different Timescale
I unfortunately couldn't travel to the ongoing annual meeting of the Geological Society of America meeting because of I'll health, but we did have this essay just come out.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-think-about-conservation-on-a-different-timescale/
#paleontology #conservationbiology #conservationpaleobiology
How do environmental conditions influence the body sizes of bivalves and their drilling predators? Luke Calderaro (Colgate '22), Marina Rillo, & I investigate environmental correlates of trophic size structure in the northern Gulf of Mexico in this recently published open-access article in Paleobiology: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.22. Congratulations Luke!
#ConservationPaleobiology turns to #fossils of shells, teeth and pollen to help restore ecosystems
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/conservation-paleobiology-restoring-ecosystems
"Researchers use historic remnants like #antlers, #shells, #teeth and #pollen to learn how natural communities once worked. The clues serve as guides for restoration...
#Conservation #paleobiology is new enough that its insights are only starting to percolate through to the government agencies that make conservation decisions on the ground."
Our Steller's sea cow and kelp paper in the NY Times. Nice sci comm https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/science/sea-cow-california-kelp.html
#scicomm #paleoecology #conservationpaleobiology
Our sea cow-kelp paper covered in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/sea-cow-california-17622330.php #ConservationPaleobiology #ecology #paleontology
We have a new paper "Impact of the extinct megaherbivore Steller's sea cow on kelp forest resilience." We use a #ConservationPaleobiology PPF (Past-Present-Future) approach to mathematically model a historical ecosystem and compare its resilience to the modern system. #paleontology #conservationbiology #ecology #openaccesspublishing https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.983558/
