"This book provides an overview of how we obtain information from long-dead mammals and explains what this information can tell us of relevance to ongoing pressing environmental issues"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 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 Nontraditional “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
• References
• Index
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