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Conservation paleobiology: putting the dead to work by Dietl, Gregory P., Flessa, Karl W.

“…Geohistorical data and analyses are playing an increasingly important role in conservation biology practice and policy. In this review, we discuss examples of…”
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Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration by Dietl, Gregory P, Kidwell, Susan M, Brenner, Mark, Burney, David A, Flessa, Karl W, Jackson, Stephen T, Koch, Paul L

“…Humans now play a major role in altering Earth and its biota. Finding ways to ameliorate human impacts on biodiversity and to sustain and restore the ecosystem…”
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Better together: Building an engaged conservation paleobiology science for the future by Dietl, Gregory P., Durham, Stephen R., Clark, Cheryl, Prado, Rebecca

“…Making decisions about natural resource conservation is often difficult because of a lack of longer‐term data, which are needed to provide a frame of reference…”
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Conservation palaeobiology and the shape of things to come by Dietl, Gregory P

“…Conservation decision-making is a forward-looking process that involves choices among alternative images of how the future will unfold. Scenarios, easily…”
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Indirect effects of climate change altered the cannibalistic behaviour of shell-drilling gastropods in Antarctica during the Eocene by Dietl, Gregory P., Nagel-Myers, Judith, Aronson, Richard B.

“…The fossil record from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, provides a record of biotic response to the onset of global climatic cooling during the Eocene…”
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Geohistorical records indicate no impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on oyster body size by Dietl, Gregory P., Durham, Stephen R.

“…Documentation of the near- and long-term effects of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters in US history, is still…”
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Abundance is not enough: the need for multiple lines of evidence in testing for ecological stability in the fossil record by Nagel-Myers, Judith, Dietl, Gregory P, Handley, John C, Brett, Carlton E

“…The fossil record is the only source of information on the long-term dynamics of species assemblages. Here we assess the degree of ecological stability of the…”
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Specialized shell-breaking crab claws in Cretaceous seas by Dietl, Gregory P, Vega, Francisco J

“…Here we report on a large brachyuran crab species from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico that has claws indicative of highly specialized shell-breaking behaviour…”
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Fossil clam shells reveal unintended carbon cycling consequences of Colorado River management by Smith, Jansen A., Auerbach, Daniel A., Flessa, Karl W., Flecker, Alexander S., Dietl, Gregory P.

“…Water management that alters riverine ecosystem processes has strongly influenced deltas and the people who depend on them, but a full accounting of the…”
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Crab scars reveal survival advantage of left-handed snails by Dietl, Gregory P, Hendricks, Jonathan R

“…Biological asymmetries are important elements of the structure and function of many living organisms. Using the Plio–Pleistocene fossil record of crab…”
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Ecology: Different worlds by Dietl, Gregory P

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Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems by Barnosky, Anthony D., Hadly, Elizabeth A., Gonzalez, Patrick, Head, Jason, Polly, P. David, Lawing, A. Michelle, Eronen, Jussi T., Ackerly, David D., Alex, Ken, Biber, Eric, Blois, Jessica, Brashares, Justin, Ceballos, Gerardo, Davis, Edward, Dietl, Gregory P., Dirzo, Rodolfo, Doremus, Holly, Fortelius, Mikael, Greene, Harry W., Hellmann, Jessica, Hickler, Thomas, Jackson, Stephen T., Kemp, Melissa, Koch, Paul L., Kremen, Claire, Lindsey, Emily L., Looy, Cindy, Marshall, Charles R., Mendenhall, Chase, Mulch, Andreas, Mychajliw, Alexis M., Nowak, Carsten, Ramakrishnan, Uma, Schnitzler, Jan, Shrestha, Kashish Das, Solari, Katherine, Stegner, Lynn, Stegner, M. Allison, Stenseth, Nils Chr, Wake, Marvalee H., Zhang, Zhibin

“…Conservation of species and ecosystems is increasingly difficult because anthropogenic impacts are pervasive and accelerating. Under this rapid global change,…”
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The Trans-Atlantic History of Diversity and Body Size in Ecological Guilds by Vermeij, Geerat J., Dietl, Gregory P., Reid, David G.

“…Geographically separate biotas often show differences in species composition, diversity, and adaptations. Such differences, which often reflect historical…”
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Different worlds by Dietl, Gregory P.

“…Patterns of species association reveal that terrestrial plant and animal communities today are structured differently from communities spanning the 300 million…”
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Live-dead analysis reveals long-term response of the estuarine bivalve community to water diversions along the Colorado River by Dietl, Gregory P., Smith, Jansen A.

“…[Display omitted] •The modern bivalve community has changed in response to diversions of the Colorado River.•The baseline bivalve community was characterized…”
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Using molluscs to assess ecological quality status of soft-bottom habitats along the Atlantic coastline of the United States by Pruden, Matthew J., Dietl, Gregory P., Handley, John C., Smith, Jansen A.

“…•Mollusc-only M-AMBI outperformed mollusc-only AMBI in assessing ecological quality.•Mollusc-only M-AMBI identified environmental remediation needs with > 90%…”
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Effects of dams on downstream molluscan predator–prey interactions in the Colorado River estuary by Smith, Jansen A., Handley, John C., Dietl, Gregory P.

“…River systems worldwide have been modified for human use and the downstream ecological consequences are often poorly understood. In the Colorado River estuary,…”
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Rapid determination of oyster lifespans and growth rates using LA-ICP-MS line scans of shell Mg/Ca ratios by Durham, Stephen R., Gillikin, David P., Goodwin, David H., Dietl, Gregory P.

“…Retrospective estimates of life-history traits (e.g., growth rate, lifespan, phenology) of mollusks are valuable data for a number of fields, including…”
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value of geohistorical data in identifying a recent human‐induced range expansion of a predatory gastropod in the Colorado River delta, Mexico by Smith, Jansen A, Dietl, Gregory P

“…AIM: Throughout the Colorado River basin, numerous dams have captured and diverted the entirety of the basin's c. 1.85 × 10¹⁰ m³ year⁻¹ of water, altering the…”
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Core Competencies for Training Conservation Paleobiology Students in a Wicked World by Kelley, Patricia H., Dietl, Gregory P.

“…Despite the promise conservation paleobiology holds for using geohistorical data and insights to solve conservation problems, training in the field typically…”
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