Vol. 60 No. 2 (2023): Abstracts of the 2nd Conservation Paleobiology Symposium

Published: 2023-02-16

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The Importance of Paleoecology in Everglades Restoration Science and Management

Nicholas G. Aumen, Georgiana L. Wingard, Christopher Bernhardt

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Bridging the Divide from Paleoecology to Neoecology

Mark B. Bush

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Characterizing Past Communities to Build Future Ones: Lessons from Caribbean Conservation Paleobiology

Melissa E. Kemp

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Conservation Paleobiology and the Stewardship of U.S. National Park Service Paleontological Resources

Vincent L. Santucci

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Geological Perspectives on the Degradation and Restoration of Coral Reefs

Lauren T. Toth

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Understanding Paleoclimate Through Southern California’s Packrat Middens

Elizabeth L. Austin, Alexis M. Mychajliw

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Mobilizing Paleobiology to Support Conservation in the Bahamas

The Bahamas Lost Ecosystems Conservation Paleobiology Working Group

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Implications of Immigrant Arrival Times During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum for Mammal Biogeographic Response to Modern Climate Change

Jonathan I. Bloch, Paul E. Morse, Natasha S. Vitek, Doug M. Boyer, Vera A. Korasidis, Scott L. Wing

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Environmental Controls on Predator and Prey Body Size in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Luke A. Calderaro, Paul G. Harnik, Marina C. Rillo

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Shell Microstructure as an Indicator of Changing Environmental Conditions in Coastal Oceans

Jane S. Carskaddan, Paul G. Harnik, Rebecca A. Metzler

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Integrating Paleo, Historical, Archeological, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Data into Caribbean Coral Reef Management

Katie L. Cramer, Loren McClenachan, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Jessica Carilli, Jason Cope, Rachel Graham, Ilse Martínez, Melanie McField, Josh Nowlis, Juan Carlos Pérez Jiménez, Nadia Rubio-Cisneros, Alexander Tewfik, Tali Vardi, Zachary Whaley

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Coral Geochemical Records Track Millennial-Scale Ecosystem Change and Resilience in the Tropical Eastern Pacific

Jonathan D. Cybulski, Nicolas Duprey, Sean Connolly, Alan Foreman, Erin Dillon, Hubert Vonhof, Alfredo Martinez-Garcia, Brigida De Gracia, Aaron O’Dea

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Detecting Genuine Versus Pseudo-Absence in The Fossil Record: Applications of Occupancy Modelling For Conservation Palaeobiology

Christopher D. Dean, Philip D. Mannion

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Coyotes Reveal Baseline Nitrogen Decline Across End-Pleistocene Ecosystem Collapse

Larisa R. DeSantis, Julie A. Meachen, Joshua H. Miller, Regan Dunn, Emily Lindsey, Melissa Pardi, John Southon, Wendy Binder, Joshua Cohen, F. Robin O’Keefe, Elsa Muller, Ansley Petherick, Elizabeth Hall, Solathus Johnson, Benjamin Fuller, Aisling Farrell, Gary Takeuchi

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Paleoecology of the Plio-Pleistocene of Queensland: Ecological Shifts Evidenced From Fauna at the Darling Downs

Larisa R. DeSantis, Gilbert Price, Julien Louys

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Integrating Information from the Past into Oyster Management

Gregory P. Dietl, Stephen R. Durham

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Coproduction In Conservation Paleobiology: Lessons Learned from the Historical Oyster Body Size Project

Gregory P. Dietl, Stephen R. Durham, Cheryl P. Clark, Rebecca Prado

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Reconstructing Millennial-Scale Variability in Reef Shark Communities Across The Isthmus of Panama

Erin Dillon, Douglas McCauley, Brigida De Gracia, Jonathan D. Cybulski, Aaron O’Dea

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What is Conservation Paleobiology? Tracking 20 Years of Research and Development

Erin Dillon, Jaleigh Q. Pier, Jansen A. Smith, Nussaïbah Raja, Danijela Dimitrijević, Elizabeth L. Austin, Jonathan D. Cybulski, Julia De Entrambasaguas, Stephen R. Durham, Carolin Grether, Himadri Haldar, Kocáková Kristína, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Ilaria Mazzini, Alexis M. Mychajliw, Amy Ollendorf, Catalina Pimiento, Omar Regalado Fernández, Isaiah Smith, Gregory Dietl

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Oyster Death Assemblages as Archives of Historical Information for Studying Long-Term Trends in Oyster Body Size

Stephen R. Durham, Gregory P. Dietl, John C. Handley, Quan Hua, Cheryl P. Clark, Jaleigh Q. Pier, Darrell S. Kaufman

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Live-Dead Shifts in Molluscan Functional Diversity in Coastal Alabama

Charlotte L. Filipovich, Paul G. Harnik, Katie S. Collins

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Paleoecological Implications of Trematode-Induced Pit Size in Chamelea Gallina from the Adriatic Sea, Italy

Erin Fitzgerald, Daniele Scarponi, John W. Huntley

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Transferable Skills and Big Ideas for the Next Generation of (Paleo)Environmental Decision Makers: A Curricular Example Using Salmon Restoration and Conservation in the Pacific Northwest for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Training

Kena Fox-Dobbs, Daniel Sherman, Peter Wimberger

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Shed Female Antlers as a Mineral Resource for Caribou on Spring Calving Grounds

Madison Gaetano, Joshua H. Miller, Eric J. Wald, Patrick Druckenmiller

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A 55,000-Year Reconstruction of Vegetation in the Los Angeles Basin: Insights Into Future Change and a Better Guide for the Present

Jessie George, Regan Dunn, Emily Lindsey, Aisling Farrell, Glen MacDonald

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Per-Simper, An Innovative Method for Identifying Community Assembly Processes Within Modern, Recent, and Deep-Time Paleontological Assemblages

Corentin Gibert, Gilles Escarguel, Annika Vilmi, Jianjun Wang, Jenny L. McGuire

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Life Histories Vary with Primary Productivity in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Juan J. Gómez, Victor K. Unnone, Paul G. Harnik

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Modeling Pre-Impact Baselines at Scale to Inform Species Recovery

Molly K. Grace, Resit Akçakaya, Aaron Avery, Clare Duncan, James Hansford, Gregory S. Herbert, Andrew M. Kramer, Philip D. Mannion, Ana Prohaska, Harri Ravenscroft, Ana Rodrigues, Erin Saupe, P. J. Stephenson, Samuel Turvey, Jessica Welch, Jack Williams

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Distribution and Diversity of Sediment-Dwelling Echinoids of the Central Florida Keys

Tobias B. Grun, Michał Kowalewski

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Using Past Archives to Better Constrain The Future of Alligator Sinensis

James Hansford, Erin Saupe, Samuel Turvey, Heidi Ma, I-Ting Tu, Grace Varnham, Phil Mannion

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Concordant Spatial Gradients in Predation Intensity and Productivity Archived in Surficial Mollusk Shell Accumulations in Seagrass Meadows Along the Gulf Coast of Florida

Alizé M. Hardin, Sahale Casebolt, A. Challen Hyman, Savanna Barry, Katy Cummings, Tom Frazer, Michał Kowalewski

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Impacts of Ocean Deoxygenation on Marine Benthos in the Gulf of Mexico

Paul G. Harnik, Anne Chao, Katie S. Collins, Marina C. Rillo

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Mapping Past Distributions of Marine Mollusks Using Shell Death Assemblages

Gregory S. Herbert, Andrew M. Kramer, Stephen P. Geiger, Ana Jimenez Bustos, Stephanie A. Sanders, Nicole Seiden, Jaime A. Rogers

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Parasite Dynamics: One Pattern and Multiple Possible Causes

John W. Huntley, Daniele Scarponi

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Deep Time Conservation Paleobiology of the Atlantic Jigsaw Puzzle and the Future of the Southwestern Angolan Coast

Louis L. Jacobs, Michael J. Polcyn, Octávio Mateus, Anne S. Schulp

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Developing Testable Hypotheses of Anthropogenic Stress: Some Approaches That Work

Susan M. Kidwell

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Monitors with Memories: Death Assemblages Record a Century of Wastewater Pollution and Remediation

Broc S. Kokesh

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Understanding Botanical Traits of Rancho La Brea Fossils for Conservation Purposes

Steven Joseph Mendoza

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Paleofidelity: An R Package for Measuring and Visualizing Live-Dead Fidelity

Michał Kowalewski

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Pleistocene Disruption of Trait-Environment Relationships Informs the Future Conservation of African Megafauna

Daniel A. Lauer, A. Michelle Lawing, Rachel A. Short, Frederick K. Manthi, Johannes Müller, Jason J. Head, Jenny L. McGuire

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The Past as a Lens for Biodiversity Conservation on a Dynamically Changing Planet

Jenny L. McGuire, A. Michelle Lawing, Sandra Díaz, Nils C. Stenseth

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Paleo-Biological Approaches to Present Day Wetland Ecosystem Restoration Problems

John F. Meeder

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How Many Generations are Available for Study? Expectations and Applications of Historical Ecological Insight from Bones Lying on Modern Landscapes

Joshua H. Miller, Eric J. Wald, Patrick Druckenmiller, Carl Simpson

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Tribally-Led Consultation on the Ethical Use of Sedimentary Ancient DNA for a Culturally Important Plant: Manoomin, Psin, Zizania (Wild Rice)

Amy Myrbo, Darren Vogt, Nancy Schuldt, Thomas Howes, Ron Schirmer, Karen Diver

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Establishing Modern Peat Analogs to Decipher Mangal Sub-Habitats From Historical Peats

Samuel H. Neely, Anne Raymond

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Baseline Caribbean Reefs

Aaron O’Dea, Brigida De Gracia, Julia Briand, Jonathan D. Cybulski, Maybelline Ureña, Kimberly García-Méndez, Jessica Lueders-Dumont, Erin Dillon

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Human-Driven Diversity Changes in Caribbean Parrots Across the Holocene

Jessica A. Oswald, Brian T. Smith, Julie M. Allen, Robert P. Guralnick, David W. Steadman, Michelle J. LeFebvre

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Does Fire Drive Quaternary Ecosystem Transformation at Lake Tulane, Florida?

Angelina G. Perrotti, Miranda Siedelmann, Jocelyn Lam, James Russell, John W. Williams

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Using the Past to Tell More Persuasive Conservation Stories

Jaleigh Q. Pier, Olivia L. Olson, Alexis M. Mychajliw, Gregory P. Dietl

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Using Simulations to Evaluate the Utility of Geohistorical Reference Conditions for Assessing Ecological Quality

M. J. Pruden; Jansen A. Smith; John C. Handley, Stephen R. Durham, Gregory P. Dietl

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Preliminary Bat Guano Isotope Evidence for Past Vegetation and Climate Change in Southwest Virginia

Rachel E. B. Reid, Payton Harman, Lisa Kennedy, William Orndorff, Kate Langwig

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Fossil Squamates of Pedernales Province, Dominican Republic: Novel Record of Human-Induced Extinction and Extirpation

Mitchell S. Riegler, Lazaro W. Vinola, Evan S. Steinberg, Hannah Quintal, Juan N. Almonte, Jonathan I. Bloch

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Climate Change and The Persistence of Coral-Reef Development in Upwelling Zones

Victor Rodriguez-Ruano, Lauren T. Toth, Ian C. Enochs, Carly J. Randall, Richard B. Aronson

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Steller’s Sea Cow and Kelp Forest Regeneration in the North Pacific

Peter D. Roopnarine, Roxanne M. W. Banker, Scott D. Sampson

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Giant Kelp Forest Resilience to Ocean Warming; Historical and Modern Systems

Peter D. Roopnarine, Roxanne M. W. Banker, Scott D. Sampson

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Using Fish Remains to Trace Dynamic Exchanges Between Ecology and Economy in Fiji

Leah D. Rubin, Elizabeth Sibert, Joshua Drew

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Death Assemblages Record Significant Range Contraction in a Molluscan Species of Concern from the Eastern Gulf of Mexico 

Stephanie A. Sanders, Gregory S. Herbert, Gastón Trobbiani, Nicole Seiden, Jaime A. Rogers

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Mollusk Response Under Ocean Acidification in Shallow Marine Settings of Sicily (Central Mediterranean)

Daniele Scarponi, Arianna Mancuso, Stefano Goffredo, Michał Kowalewski

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Changes in Small Mammal Communities Over the Last 25,000 Years Show a Complex Relationship Between Composition, Traits, and Aridity

Julia A. Schap, Julie A. Meachen, Jenny L. McGuire

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MegaSDM: Modelling Species Ranges in The Past And Future

Benjamin R. Shipley, Bistra Dilkina, Jenny L. McGuire

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Assessing Impact of Domestic and Non-Native Species on Trait-Environment Relationships Using Hypsodonty and Precipitation Since the Late Pleistocene

Rachel A. Short, Michael Sketel, Jeff M. Martin, Julia A. Schap, Jenny L. McGuire, A. Michelle Lawing

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Describing a Newly Excavated Packrat Midden Near Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming to Help Assess Biases in Fossil Microfaunal Accumulation

Michael J. Sketel, Jenny L. McGuire, Julia A. Schap, Rachel A. Short

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Variance of Carotid-Rete-Mediated Selective Brain Cooling Across Aridity Indices

Katherine Slenker, Haley O’Brien, Lindsey Yann

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A Holocene Seabird Extinction in Maine: The Great Auk

Lucia Snyderman, Alexis M. Mychajliw, Arthur Spiess

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Molluscs Across Space and Through Time in a Hypersaline Coastal Lagoon, Mexico

Nancy Y. Suárez-Mozo, Mark Brenner, William F. Kenney, Misael Díaz Asencio, Jason H. Curtis, Marco A. Aquino-Lopez, Edlin Guerra-Castro, Nuno Simões

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Conservation Paleobiology and Taphonomy: Differential Preservation and Time-Averaging of Echinoids and Mollusks

Luis Torres, Michał Kowalewski, Roger W. Portell, Tobias B. Grun

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Small Mammal Hypsodonty Ratios Do Not Track Precipitation Changes at Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming

Lily Turner, Julia A. Schap, Jenny L. McGuire

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Body Size Estimation in Toads (Anura: Bufonidae): Applicability to the Fossil Record

Maya L. Victor, Maria C. Vallejo-Pareja, David C. Blackburn

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Small Biological Preserves and Smaller Mammals: Can Protected Areas in Our Most Populous Regions Conserve Historic Community Composition?

Maria C. Viteri, M. Allison Stegner, Elizabeth A. Hadly

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Examining the Biogeographic History and Evolution of Otters in the Americas to Identify Conservation Solutions

Danaan DeNeve Weeks, Emily Lindsey

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Long-Term Change in Caribbean Reef Water Quality and Ecosystem Health

Zachary B. Whaley, Katie L. Cramer, Loren McClenachan, Alexander Tewfik, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Melanie McField, Jessica Carilli, Tali Vardi

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Community Abundance and Environmental Monitoring to Support Coral Reef Management in East Portland Special Fishery Conservation Area, Jamaica

Claire M. Williams, Rowan C. Martindale, Denise Henry, Debbie-Ann Gordon-Smith, Pearl Bergan

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Metabarcoding of American Mink Scat to Explore Shifting Baselines in the Gulf of Maine

Sara Williams, Sabrina Shirazi, Karissa Hughes, Chris Abin, Linda Welch, Alexis M. Mychajliw, Courtney A. Hofman

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Bridging the Gap Between Conservation Paleobiology and Resource Management: Recognizing the Past is the Key to the Future

Georgiana L. Wingard, Bethany Stackhouse

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