Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

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Volumn 355, Issue 6325, 2017, Pages

  Barnosky, Anthony D ^a,b   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a   Gonzalez, Patrick ^c,d   Head, Jason ^e   Polly, P David ^f   Lawing, A Michelle ^g   Eronen, Jussi T ^h,i,j   Ackerly, David D ^b   Alex, Ken ^k   Biber, Eric ^b   Blois, Jessica ^l   Brashares, Justin ^d   Ceballos, Gerardo ^m   Davis, Edward ⁿ   Dietl, Gregory P ^o,p   Dirzo, Rodolfo ^a   Doremus, Holly ^b   Fortelius, Mikael ^i,q   Greene, Harry W ^r   Hellmann, Jessica ^s   Hickler, Thomas ^t   Jackson, Stephen T ^u,v   Kemp, Melissa ^w   Koch, Paul L ^x   Kremen, Claire ^d   Lindsey, Emily L ^b,ae   Looy, Cindy ^b   Marshall, Charles R ^b   Mendenhall, Chase ^a,y   Mulch, Andreas ^h,t   Mychajliw, Alexis M ^a   Nowak, Carsten ^z   Ramakrishnan, Uma ^aa   Schnitzler, Jan ^h,ab   Das Shrestha, Kashish ^ac   Solari, Katherine ^a   Stegner, Lynn ^a   Stegner, M Allison ^b,af   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^q   Wake, Marvalee H ^b   Zhang, Zhibin ^ad   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^j BIOS Research Unit   (Finland)

^k California Governor's Office of Planning and Research   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^o PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION   (United States)

^p Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^r University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^t GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^u U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^v The University of Arizona   (United States)

^w HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^y THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^z SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^aa TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^ac City Museum   (Nepal)

^ad INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^ae La Brea Tar Pits and Museum   (United States)

^af UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PALEOBIOLOGY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUTUROLOGY; HABITAT; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; ANIMAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMAN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POLICY; POLLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POLICY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 85012043641     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aah4787     Document Type: Review

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