[HTML][HTML] Ostracoda (Crustacea) as indicators of anthropogenic impacts–A review

O Schmitz, M Alivernini, M Yasuhara, P Frenzel - Earth-Science Reviews, 2025 - Elsevier
The impact of human activities on aquatic ecosystems has been a growing concern
requiring reliable bioindicators for monitoring environmental changes. Ostracods, a group of …

Temporal scales, sampling designs and age distributions in marine conservation palaeobiology

A Tomašových, S Dominici, R Nawrot, M Zuschin - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Conservation palaeobiology informs conservation and restoration of ecosystems by using
the fossil record to discriminate between baseline and novel states and to assess ecosystem …

Holocene fish assemblages provide baseline data for the rapidly changing eastern Mediterranean

K Agiadi, PG Albano - The Holocene, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The eastern Mediterranean marine ecosystem is undergoing massive modification due to
biological invasions, overfishing, habitat deterioration, and climate warming. Our ability to …

Young death assemblages with limited time-averaging in rocky and Posidonia oceanica habitats in the Mediterranean Sea

PG Albano, Q Hua, DS Kaufman, M Zuschin - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Death assemblages (DAs) are increasingly recognized as a valuable source to reconstruct
past ecological baselines, due to the accumulation of skeletal material of non …

Spatial and seasonal distribution of Ostracoda in a lagoonal environment along the northeastern coast of India: Implications to assess coastal ecology and …

SS Barik, RK Singh, SM Hussain, S Tripathy… - Marine …, 2022 - Elsevier
Variable seasonal interaction of both fresh and marine waters in lagoon ecosystems
generally creates salinity gradients, which significantly impact the microhabitat of the …

Spatiotemporal impacts of the Anthropocene on small mammal communities, and the role of small biological preserves in maintaining biodiversity

MC Viteri, EA Hadly - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The multi-faceted impacts of the Anthropocene are increasingly modifying natural
ecosystems and threatening biodiversity. Can small protected spaces conserve small …

Arctic bivalve dead-shell assemblages as high temporal-and spatial-resolution archives of ecological regime change in response to climate change

CA Meadows, JM Grebmeier, SM Kidwell - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A 15-year time-series of data on benthic community response to rapid climate change at a
biomass 'hotspot'in the northern Bering Sea, Alaska, provides an exceptional opportunity to …

Modern biogeography of benthic foraminifera in an urbanized tropical marine ecosystem

BL Mamo, JD Cybulski, Y Hong, PG Harnik, A Chao… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We investigated the biogeography of benthic foraminifera in a highly urbanized tropical
seascape, ie Hong Kong, in order to assess their utility as bioindicators relative to other …

Live and Live-Dead Intraspecific Morphometric Comparisons as Proxies for Seagrass Stability in Conservation Paleobiology

LC Anderson, BL Long-Fox, AT Paterson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Comparisons of life and death assemblages are commonly conducted to detect
environmental change, including when historical records of live occurrences are …

Dead Shells Bring to Life Baselines for Conservation: Case Studies from The Bahamas, Southern California, and Wisconsin, USA

AV Michelson, JJ Spergel, KC Kimball, L Park Boush… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
We are living in a time of rapid biodiversity loss. Numerous studies have shown that modern
extinction rates are higher than pre-human background rates. However, these studies of …