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2020
This chapter focuses on very long-term patterns over time and over large spatial extents. It considers some of these long-term changes in plants and plant communities, the scientific methods used for understanding them, and some of their implications. The chapter then highlights the field of paleoecology, which is the study of historical ecology.
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This chapter focuses on very long-term patterns over time and over large spatial extents. It considers some of these long-term changes in plants and plant communities, the scientific methods used for understanding them, and some of their implications. The chapter then highlights the field of paleoecology, which is the study of historical ecology.
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020
While the interplay between migration and adaptation dictates species response to climate change, technological limitations have obfuscated explicit tests on past adaptive responses. However, a surge in technology-driven advances in paleoecological methods coincides with breakthroughs in processing ancient DNA, providing the first opportunity to assess
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While the interplay between migration and adaptation dictates species response to climate change, technological limitations have obfuscated explicit tests on past adaptive responses. However, a surge in technology-driven advances in paleoecological methods coincides with breakthroughs in processing ancient DNA, providing the first opportunity to assess
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Notes for a Short Course: Studies in Geology, 1985
Studying the paleoecology of the extinct chambered cephalopods is somewhat analogous to studying a distant landscape through the wrong end of a powerful telescope: we can see very small views of what must have been great panoramic vistas. Two factors have lead to this situation.
Peter D. Ward, Gerd E. G. Westermann
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Studying the paleoecology of the extinct chambered cephalopods is somewhat analogous to studying a distant landscape through the wrong end of a powerful telescope: we can see very small views of what must have been great panoramic vistas. Two factors have lead to this situation.
Peter D. Ward, Gerd E. G. Westermann
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2023
Abstract Primates originated in a “hot-house” world of widespread rainforests. Plesiadapiform primates thrived during the Paleocene but died out when arboreal rodents won their niches. Euprimates radiated during the Eocene, which ended in a period of global cooling ~40–34 Ma.
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Abstract Primates originated in a “hot-house” world of widespread rainforests. Plesiadapiform primates thrived during the Paleocene but died out when arboreal rodents won their niches. Euprimates radiated during the Eocene, which ended in a period of global cooling ~40–34 Ma.
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2001
One of the most important questions we can ask about life is "Does ecology matter?" Most biologists and paleontologists are trained to answer "yes," but the exact mechanisms by which ecology matters in the context of patterns that play out over millions of years have never been entirely clear.
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One of the most important questions we can ask about life is "Does ecology matter?" Most biologists and paleontologists are trained to answer "yes," but the exact mechanisms by which ecology matters in the context of patterns that play out over millions of years have never been entirely clear.
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Notes for a Short Course: Studies in Geology, 1985
Paleoecology concerns the life processes and patterns of environmental relationships of groups of ancient organisms during their lifetimes. Two assumptions are fundamental to paleoecological theory: observed patterns in populations, associations, communities and ecosystems represented in the fossil record were imposed by contemporaneous physical and ...
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Paleoecology concerns the life processes and patterns of environmental relationships of groups of ancient organisms during their lifetimes. Two assumptions are fundamental to paleoecological theory: observed patterns in populations, associations, communities and ecosystems represented in the fossil record were imposed by contemporaneous physical and ...
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Notes for a Short Course: Studies in Geology, 1985
Bivalves are one of the major macroinvertebrate fossil groups of the Phanerozoic. Bivalves have occupied many aqueous habitats, and in doing this have undergone a steady, relatively unchecked increase in diversity (Figure 1). Thus, bivalves are one of the most useful fossil groups in paleoecology, both for environmental reconstruction as well as for ...
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Bivalves are one of the major macroinvertebrate fossil groups of the Phanerozoic. Bivalves have occupied many aqueous habitats, and in doing this have undergone a steady, relatively unchecked increase in diversity (Figure 1). Thus, bivalves are one of the most useful fossil groups in paleoecology, both for environmental reconstruction as well as for ...
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Sedimentary ancient DNA as a tool in paleoecology
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021Sarah Crump
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