palaeoecology
IPA: pʌɫˈeɪoʊikˈɑɫʌdʒi
noun
- The study of past ecologies by using the evidence of fossils
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Examples of "palaeoecology" in Sentences
- Ecology and palaeoecology of marine environments.
- The taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Florisbad spring Fauna.
- Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities.
- Palaeoecology and climate of the Amazon basin during the last glacial cycle.
- Disciplines such as palaeoecology [using fossils to reconstruct past ecosystems] and phylogeography have helped elucidate how this poleward expansion occurred.
- Fortunately, Alvarenga & Höfling (2003) looked at phorusrhacids anew and reviewed all the taxa, providing information on historical taxonomy, palaeoecology, and phylogenetic affinities.
- Its name commemorates Voli Voli Cave (one of the discovery sites) and Atholl Anderson, well known for his many contributions to the prehistory and palaeoecology of south-west Pacific islands.
- They demonstrate the close interconnection between landforms and paedogenesis, palaeochemistry, climatology, archaeology, archaeomagnetism, radio-carbon dating, palaeoecology and faunal extinction.
- While the role of refugial isolation remains speculative for most rainforest systems, the contraction of Australia's tropical rainforests into isolated refugia during cooler, drier climatic conditions is well documented, with parallel evidence from disparate sources such as palaeoecology comparative mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) phylogeographies