Carissimi Soci SGI,
Carissimi Soci Società Associate,
su indicazione del Prof. Daniele Scarponi (Università di Bologna), vi segnaliamo la Call for Abstracts della sessione "Palaeoecological records help to understand ecosystem dynamics affected by human disturbances: implications for conservation biology" organizzata nell'ambito dell'EGU General Assembly 2024 (Austria & Online | 14–19 Aprile 2024).
Cordiali saluti,
La Segreteria
Palaeoecological records help to understand ecosystem dynamics affected by human disturbances: implications for conservation biology
Abstract submission
Marine and terrestrial ecosystems and species are drastically affected by today's changing climate and other anthropogenic stressors. However, monitoring the ecological consequences of such impacts on biodiversity is difficult. By covering only recent decades, scientific surveys and monitoring are limited in time and space and, therefore, insufficient to fully assess the long-term human impacts and ecosystem status. Attempts to predict future changes without knowing the causes and trajectories of changes in the past and effectively restoring degraded populations or communities without historical baselines are challenging. The fossil record and other geohistorical archives (e.g., biogeochemical or isotopic signatures of sediment cores and/or archaeological middens) document the most recent as well as past disturbances and their effects on organisms and the structure of marine and terrestrial ecosystems (e.g., taxonomic and functional composition, body size changes and abundance patterns).
Therefore, this session will explore how interdisciplinary approaches to the geological record can enhance the interpretation of past ecosystems and thus provide context and guidance for the near-future dynamics of modern ecosystems. We will showcase geohistorical records through case studies at various spatial and temporal scales using a wide range of tools and analytical approaches from palaeontology, geology, historical ecology, and archaeology.