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
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index