Increasing the salience of marine live–dead data in the Anthropocene

• DOI: 10.1017/pab.2020.19
• Publication Date: 2020-05-22T11:09:15Z
• Authors: Jansen A. Smith; Gregory P. Dietl; Stephen R. Durham
• Keywords: Anthropocene; Salience (neuroscience); Novel ecosystem

Abstract As the climate changes and ecosystems shift toward novel combinations of species, methods metrics conservation science are becoming less species-centric. To meet this growing need, marine paleobiologists stand to benefit from addition new, taxon-free benthic indices live–dead analysis tool kit. These indices, which were developed provide actionable, policy-specific data, can be applied readily preservable component communities (e.g., mollusks) assess ecological quality status entire community. Because these taxon-free, they remain applicable even as develop—making them a potentially valuable complement traditionally approaches for analysis, tend focus on maintaining specific species under relatively stable environmental conditions. Integrating geohistorical data with established has potential increase salience approach in eyes resource managers other stakeholders.