Ecosystems today are under growing pressure, with human domination at many scales. It is
difficult, however, to gauge what has changed or been lost–and why–in the absence of data …

Biologists increasingly appreciate the importance of community-level attributes in the
functioning and temporal turnover of ecosystems, but data other than species richness are …

Seagrass meadows are marine habitats with high ecological importance. Their detection in
the fossil record will contribute to our understanding of the development of patterns of …

Life–death (LD) studies of shelly macrofauna are important to evaluate how well a fossil
assemblage can reflect the original living community, but can also serve as a proxy for …

Environmental impact assessments require pre-impact data to discriminate between natural
and anthropogenic sources of community shifts. True pre-impact data, however, are rarely …

Carbonate sediments in non‐vegetated habitats on the north‐east Adriatic shelf are
dominated by shells of molluscs. However, the rate of carbonate molluscan production prior …

The eastern Mediterranean marine ecosystem is undergoing massive modification due to
biological invasions, overfishing, habitat deterioration, and climate warming. Our ability to …

Paleobiological and paleoecological interpretations rely on constraining the temporal
resolution of the fossil record. The taphonomic clock, that is, a correlation between the …

Integrating analysis of the benthic palaeoecological record with multivariate ordination
techniques represents a powerful synergy able to provide an improved characterization of …

Actualistic studies are important for evaluating the fidelity of fossil assemblages in
representing the living community. Poor live-dead (LD) fidelity in molluscan assemblages …