Using Past Insights to Inform Future Conservation (2 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Using Past Insights to Inform Future Conservation (2 of 8)

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As human impacts transform landscapes rapidly in unprecedented ways, the fossil record is casting a new light on nature conservation. Photo: Dawn at Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, University of California Reserve System. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 10, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.D. Barnosky at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, 'Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems.'

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