Time‐averaging and fidelity of modern death assemblages: building a taphonomic foundation for conservation palaeobiology

SM Kidwell - Palaeontology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems today are under growing pressure, with human domination at many scales. It is
difficult, however, to gauge what has changed or been lost–and why–in the absence of data …

Across space and time: A review of sampling, preservational, analytical, and anthropogenic biases in fossil data across macroecological scales

K Nanglu, TM Cullen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative studies of fossil data have proven critical to a number of major
macroevolutionary and macroecological discoveries, such as the 'Big 5'mass extinctions of …

Implications of time-averaged death assemblages for ecology and conservation biology

SM Kidwell, A Tomasovych - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Biologists increasingly appreciate the importance of community-level attributes in the
functioning and temporal turnover of ecosystems, but data other than species richness are …

[HTML][HTML] What is conservation paleobiology? Tracking 20 years of research and development

EM Dillon, JQ Pier, JA Smith, NB Raja… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Conservation paleobiology has coalesced over the last two decades since its formal coining,
united by the goal of applying geohistorical records to inform the conservation …

Neotoma: A programmatic interface to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database

S Goring, A Dawson, GL Simpson… - Open …, 2015 - account.openquaternary.com
Paleoecological data are integral to ecological and evolutionary analyses. First, they provide
an opportunity to study ecological and evolutionary interactions between communities and …

Life and death at Dmanisi, Georgia: Taphonomic signals from the fossil mammals

M Tappen, M Bukhsianidze, R Ferring, R Coil… - Journal of Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are many hypotheses regarding influences on the early hominin biogeographic
spread into Eurasia; among them is increased meat-eating. Dmanisi in Georgia is one of the …

Subaerial weathering

CA Junod, JT Pokines - Manual of forensic taphonomy, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Subaerial bone weathering can be described in lay terms as grossly similar to what happens
to exterior house paint: it bleaches, loses moisture, cracks, and flakes due to exposure to …

Mass animal sacrifice at casas del Turuñuelo (Guareña, Spain): A unique Tartessian (Iron Age) site in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula

MP Iborra Eres, S Albizuri, M Gutiérrez Rodríguez… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Zooarchaeological analyses of the skeletal remains of 52 animals unearthed in the
courtyard of an Iron Age Tartessian building known as Casas del Turuñuelo (Badajoz …

Patterns of aquatic decay and disarticulation in juvenile Indo-Pacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus), and implications for the taphonomic interpretation of fossil …

CE Syme, SW Salisbury - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014 - Elsevier
High levels of skeletal articulation and completeness in fossil crocodyliforms are commonly
attributed to rapid burial, with decreasing articulation and completeness thought to result …

[图书][B] Paleontology in ecology and conservation: an introduction

J Louys - 2012 - Springer
Paleontology is the study of past life. The geological record preserves the history of
individual organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems and earth systems through …