Conservation Palaeobiology of Marine Ecosystems

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Conservation palaeobiology tracks the history of ecosystems based on the fossil record to guide conservation decisions and contribute to the theoretical foundations of conservation biology. The accelerating pace of global change requires better understanding of the long-term resilience and adaptive capacities of ecosystems. Fossil assemblages in outcrops and cores, together with surface accumulations of skeletal remains, represent unique archives of past ecosystem dynamics and baseline community states prior to anthropogenic impacts. However, as biological data retrieved from fossil and death assemblages cannot be treated in isolation, conservation palaeobiology integrates palaeontological and geological tools to account for the nature of the stratigraphic record. This volume brings together studies that demonstrate how combining marine palaeoecological records with other types of geohistorical data (taphonomic, sedimentological, geochronological, geochemical) can inform biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management. The papers highlight novel approaches and challenges in applying geohistorical data to conservation problems, discuss the limitations imposed by time averaging, and offer both deep- and near-time perspectives on conservation palaeobiology of marine ecosystems.

Contents

Introduction

- Temporal scales, sampling designs and age distributions in marine conservation palaeobiology / Tomašových, A., Dominici, S., Nawrot, R. and Zuschin, M.

Surface death assemblages in conservation palaeobiology
- Young death assemblages with limited time-averaging in rocky and Posidonia oceanica habitats in the Mediterranean Sea / Albano, P. G., Hua, Q., Kaufman, D. S. and Zuschin, M.
- Taphonomy of bivalve skeletal remains as a means of detecting changes in oxygen depletion and recognizing ancient upwelling environments / Edelman-Furstenberg, Y.
- Dead men still tell tales: bivalve death assemblages record dynamics and consequences of recent biological invasions in Kingston Harbour, Jamaica / Kokesh, B. S. and Stemann, T. A.
- Modern biogeography of benthic foraminifera in an urbanized tropical marine ecosystem / Mamo, B. L., Cybulski, J. D., Hong, Y., Harnik, P. G., Chao, A., Tsujimoto, A., Wei, C.-L., Baker, D. M. and Yasuhara, M.
- Arctic bivalve dead-shell assemblages as high temporal- and spatial- resolution archives of ecological regime change in response to climate change / Meadows, C. A., Grebmeier, J. M. and Kidwell, S. M.
- Assessing the utility of death assemblages as reference conditions in a common benthic index (M-AMBI) with simulations / Smith, J. A., Pruden, M. J., Handley, J. C., Durham, S. R. and Dietl, G. P.
- Millennial-scale changes in abundance of brachiopods in bathyal environments detected by postmortem age distributions in death assemblage (Bari Canyon, Adriatic Sea) / Tomašových, A., García-Ramos, D. A., Nawrot, R., Nebelsick, J. H. and Zuschin, M.

Integrating surface and subsurface fossil records
- One Tree Reef Foraminifera: a relic of the pre-colonial Great Barrier Reef / Bauder, Y., Mamo, B., Brock, G. A. and Kosnik, M. A.
- Stratigraphic expression of the human impacts in condensed deposits of the Northern Adriatic Sea / Berensmeier, M., Tomašových, A., Nawrot, R., Cassin, D., Zonta, R., Koubová, I. and Zuschin, M.
- Three common sampling techniques in Pleistocene coral reefs of the Red Sea: a comparison / Ivkić, A., Puff, F., Kroh, A., Mansour, A., Osman, M., Hassan, M., Ahmed, A. E. H. and Zuschin, M.
- Addressing challenges in marine conservation with fish otoliths and their death assemblages / Leonhard, I. and Agiadi, K.
- Historical changes in mollusc communities from a temperate chenier ridge system (Mont-Saint-Michel Bay, France) / Poirier, C., Caline, B., Fournier, J. and Tessier, B.
- Assigning causality to events in the Holocene record of coral reefs / Rodriguez-Ruano, V., Toth, L. T. and Aronson, R. B.
- Assessing biotic response to anthropogenic forcing using mollusc assemblages from the Po–Adriatic System (Italy) / Scarponi, D., Rojas, A., Nawrot, R., Cheli, A. and Kowalewski, M.

Deep-time approaches in conservation palaeobiology
- Marine bioturbation collapse during Early Jurassic deoxygenation: implications for post-extinction marine ecosystem functioning / Caswell, B. A. and Herringshaw, L.
- Biodiversity change and extinction risk in Plio-Pleistocene Mediterranean bivalves: the families Veneridae, Pectinidae and Lucinidae / Danise, S. and Dominici, S.
- Mediterranean onshore–offshore gradient in the composition and temporal turnover of benthic molluscs across the middle Piacenzian Warm Period / Dominici, S. and Danise, S.

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