Paleonet: IPC5: Session "Conservation palaeobiology and historical ecology of marine ecosystems"

[Paolo G. Albano]

Dear Colleagues,

we have organised a session on conservation palaeobiology and historical 
ecology of marine ecosystems at the IPC5 in Paris on 9-13 July 2018!
We welcome your contribution to a rich and lively discussion on the 
recent developments of these research fields.

Abstract submission is open until 15 February 2018.
For more information about the congress: https://ipc5.sciencesconf.org/

Session abstract: *Conservation palaeobiology and historical ecology of 
marine ecosystems*
Paolo G. Albano, Aaron O'Dea, Martin Zuschin
Humans have altered marine ecosystems for millennia, a process that has 
intensified in the last few centuries and rapidly accelerated in the 
last 40 years. In contrast, even the most extensive systematic 
monitoring of marine ecosystems rarely encompasses more than the past 
few decades. Consequently, meaningful benchmarks are hard to define 
quantitatively and we face challenges to separate anthropogenic impacts 
from the natural dynamics of ecosystems. Palaeoecological data can 
provide high-resolution records of ecosystem change and variation 
spanning the whole of human history, enabling the reconstruction of 
ecological baselines (albeit for incomplete parts of marine communities) 
and the trajectories of ecosystem states on timescales well beyond the 
limits of ecological monitoring. Indeed, there is now consensus amongst 
conservation biologists that to give proper context to modern day 
conditions we must include historical perspectives. The onus is now on 
paleontologists, archeologists and historians to provide neontologists 
with rigorous, replicated and constructive data on past ecosystems in 
light of present day and predicted future changes. This session is 
intended to provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of 
novel approaches and insightful data in the rapidly expanding fields of 
conservation palaeobiology and historical ecology.

Best regards,

Paolo G. Albano (University of Vienna)
Aaron O'Dea (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama)
Martin Zuschin (University of Vienna)

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Dr. Paolo G. ALBANO, Ph.D. Researcher Department of Paleontology, 
University of Vienna Geozentrum, UZA II Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna 
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