Exploring the past to protect the future: an analysis of conservation paleobiology in South America

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 97(2)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Abstract Conservation paleobiology, an expanding field, employs taphonomy tools to investigate past environmental conditions and organisms before human impacts, thereby addressing key conservation issues. This review examines the concepts, approaches events in emphasizing aquatic coastal often-overlooked contributions from Brazil South America. America, with its vulnerable biodiversity, unique geology rich fossil diversity, is a natural laboratory for understanding ecosystems—a considerable potential as center leading paleobiology research. However, America underrepresented, contributing only 5% of total publications (67% it Brazil). Most American authors are geoscientists publishing mainly on mollusks, also they produced fewer studies than those more developed countries. Noteworthy, Brazilian National Council Scientific Technological Development ranks third globally funding articles. Clearly, still predominantly practiced nations geoscience fields. Other challenges include underutilization geohistorical data gap between theory practice. To address these issues, future should integrate conservationist perspectives align them societal needs. Hence, anticipated growth could bolster promote sustainability generations.

Language: Английский

Taphonomic damage of molluscan shells in the Nile Delta under natural and anthropogenic sources of environmental variability

Journal of African Earth Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 210, P. 105159 - 105159

Published: Dec. 17, 2023

Language: Английский