Towards a science of archaeoecology

SA Crabtree, JA Dunne - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - cell.com
We propose defining a field of research called 'archaeoecology'that examines the past~ 60
000 years of interactions between humans and ecosystems to better understand the human …

Scars on fossil leaves: An exploration of ecological patterns in plant–insect herbivore associations during the Age of Angiosperms

ED Currano, LE Azevedo-Schmidt… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ancient plant–insect herbivore associations can be studied directly through observation of
feeding damage scars on well-preserved leaf adpression fossils. Early work on insect …

[HTML][HTML] The stability and collapse of marine ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Y Huang, ZQ Chen, PD Roopnarine, MJ Benton… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The history of Earth's biodiversity is punctuated episodically by mass extinctions. These are
characterized by major declines of taxon richness, but the accompanying ecological …

Late Cenozoic cooling restructured global marine plankton communities

A Woodhouse, A Swain, WF Fagan, AJ Fraass… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The geographic ranges of marine organisms, including planktonic foraminifera, diatoms,
dinoflagellates, copepods and fish, are shifting polewards owing to anthropogenic climate …

Understanding the ecology of host plant–insect herbivore interactions in the fossil record through bipartite networks

A Swain, SA Maccracken, WF Fagan, CC Labandeira - Paleobiology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Plant–insect associations have been a significant component of terrestrial ecology for more
than 400 Myr. Exploring these interactions in the fossil record through novel perspectives …

Sampling bias and the robustness of ecological metrics for plant–damage‐type association networks

A Swain, LE Azevedo‐Schmidt, SA Maccracken… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plants and their insect herbivores have been a dominant component of the terrestrial
ecological landscape for the past 410 million years and feature intricate evolutionary …

Macroevolutionary dynamics of ecosystem‐engineering and niche construction

DH Erwin - Palaeontology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
That the activities of organisms influence their surrounding ecological communities, and the
environment, has long been appreciated by palaeontologists, as has the role of these …

Temporal scales, sampling designs and age distributions in marine conservation palaeobiology

A Tomašových, S Dominici, R Nawrot, M Zuschin - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Conservation palaeobiology informs conservation and restoration of ecosystems by using
the fossil record to discriminate between baseline and novel states and to assess ecosystem …

Top of the food chains: an ecological network of the marine Paja Formation biota from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia reveals the highest trophic levels ever …

D Cortés, HCE Larsson - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Mesozoic Marine Revolution restructured the world's ocean biodiversity into the
complex marine ecosystems of today. This revolution began during the Triassic but the …

The prevalence of invertebrate bioerosion on Mesozoic marine reptile bone from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the United Kingdom: new data and implications for …

S Jamison-Todd, P Upchurch, PD Mannion - Geological Magazine, 2023 - cambridge.org
Invertebrate bioerosion on fossil bone can contribute to reconstructions of benthic taxonomic
assemblages and inform us about oxygenation levels, water depth and exposure time on the …