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This book is a neatly crafted package that gives the reader all the required background knowledge, while its case studies make for fascinating reading.
—Inquisitive Biologist
This book is highly recommended to people who are interested in paleontology of mammals and how this science can help us to understand us how organisms respond and adapt to environmental changes.
—Suiform Soundings

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part I: General Principles of Paleoecology
2. Old Bones, footprints and trace evidence of life
3. Taphonomy -putting the dead to work
4. Determining age and context
Part II: Characterizing the ecology of fossil organisms
5. On being the right size
6. Show me your teeth and I will tell you what you are
7. Stable isotopes and the reconstruction of mammalian movement, diet and trophic relationships
8. Non-traditional 'fossils'
9. Reconstructing past climate
Part III: Using paleoecology to understand the present
10. The past as prologue: the importance of a deeper temporal perspective in climate change research
11. Biodiversity on Earth
Index

Mammalian Paleoecology

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 23 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9781421441405
      978-1421441405
      ISBN-10 1421441403
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      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Palaeontology Science & Nature Biology, life sciences Ecological science, the Biosphere

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      This book is a neatly crafted package that gives the reader all the required background knowledge, while its case studies make for fascinating reading.
      —Inquisitive Biologist
      This book is highly recommended to people who are interested in paleontology of mammals and how this science can help us to understand us how organisms respond and adapt to environmental changes.
      —Suiform Soundings

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      1. Introduction
      Part I: General Principles of Paleoecology
      2. Old Bones, footprints and trace evidence of life
      3. Taphonomy -putting the dead to work
      4. Determining age and context
      Part II: Characterizing the ecology of fossil organisms
      5. On being the right size
      6. Show me your teeth and I will tell you what you are
      7. Stable isotopes and the reconstruction of mammalian movement, diet and trophic relationships
      8. Non-traditional 'fossils'
      9. Reconstructing past climate
      Part III: Using paleoecology to understand the present
      10. The past as prologue: the importance of a deeper temporal perspective in climate change research
      11. Biodiversity on Earth
      Index

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