The study of ancient ecosystems is called paleoecology, and in today's world, when global climate change is an international concern, it is of more than passing interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

In the deep paleoecology we've been discussed so far, such changes occur too quickly to show up in the fossil record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Robert J. Horodyski completed his dissertation on the stromatolites and paleoecology of the park in 1973 Horodyski, 1973.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 1 - background] Reference

The current paleoecology team, led by geographer Neil Roberts, knew that the water table had dropped dramatically since then.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

If there's a core question to be asked of paleoecology, it's this: what happens to the stability of ecosystems following such mass extinctions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Ronald R. West, PhD (paleoecology and geology) (Assistant Professor of Paleobiology at Kansas State University), “paleoecology and uniformitarianism”.    From Wordnik.com.  [This view of life - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

But there's another branch of paleoecology that examines more recent climate history, and it has the ability to resolve changes that occur over human-scale time intervals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The good news from paleoecology is that the contemporary Earth may be more like this hypothetical planet than the relatively stable Earth that preceded the K-T and Permian extinctions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Willis and Birks argue, however, that the real value in paleoecology is in helping us understand how natural systems behave over long terms in response to natural perturbations--i.e., the natural variability of the environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Natural?] Reference

On too many occasions conservation policy has been set by a static vision of what is "natural," based on conceptions in many cases formed by descriptive uses of paleoecology of what conditions prevailed at particular times in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Natural?] Reference

He is the author of well over 100 research publications including journal articles, book chapters, and six books on desert grassland, the cacti of Sonora, the Sonoran desert tortoise, and packrat middens and the paleoecology of the southwestern deserts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributor: Tom Van Devender] Reference

Birks of the University of Bergen in Norway--a very nice city by the way discuss the advances that have been made in paleoecology, moving from a largely descriptive and imprecise discipline to one they believe offers much for the future of conservation practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Natural?] Reference

A reappraisal of azhdarchid pterosaur functional morphology and paleoecology.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Chatterjee S, Templin RJ (2004) Posture, locomotion, and paleoecology of pterosaurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Naish D (2008) A reappraisal of Azhdarchid pterosaur functional morphology and paleoecology.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

"Without considering changes in shape throughout ontogeny, we overestimate dinosaur diversity and hence produce an unrealistic view of the paleoecology of these animals,".    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Vertebrate paleoecology from microsites, Talley Mountain, upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA; pp. 61-77 in Sankey, J.T. and Baszio, S. (eds.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Neoceratopsian publications for 2008] Reference

In order to explore more oil and gas resources, many basic geological problems should be solved first, such as the forming age of the oil and gas-bearing rocks, the paleogeography, paleoclimate, and paleoecology etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

As work continues on the site that yielded both reptiles I can only hope that we hear more about the paleoecology of the area, but for now I am glad that the anonymous crocodylomorph in the background of the beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

"Peat fires continue underground and ... they will not be extinguished in Russia before winter rains and snow set in," said Hans Joosten, professor of peatland studies and paleoecology at the University of Greifswald in Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

My undergrad degree is in Anthropology with a focus on Archaeology and Quaternary Geology (that's the geology of the last 1.5 million years to the present) and my Masters degree is in paleoecology (past environments) and global climate change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Web] Reference

Craig Cessford and Pete Boyer, a member of Neil Roberts’s paleoecology team who was working in the deep sounding that year, drilled three cores into the bottom of the trench to see how much farther they had to go before they reached natural.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

Before long this formidable army of plant experts would join forces with Neil Roberts, who was leading the paleoecology team, and Doug Baird, whose crew was making great progress on the regional survey of the Konya Plain, to create a detailed portrait of Çatalhöyük’s place in the larger landscape—thus giving the entire team the insights it needed to figure out why these early farmers had come to this area in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

Palaios, paleoecology, taphonomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

Palaios, paleoecology, taphonomy comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONGRATS LAURA!!!] Reference

Preliminary geology, paleontology, and paleoecology Klein, R.G. (1995-1996).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Science 269, 830-832. nomy, paleoecology, and hominids at Lainyamok, Parker, S.T. & Gibson, K.R. (1979).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Introductory biology, Physical geology, historical geology, paleontology, ecology, evolution, paleoecology, marine biology, among others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Do So Many Doctors Accept Evolution? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference