Fossils can show a reliable record of marine environmental system work

Appeared in a new research The action of the National Academy of Sciences This confirms that the remnants of marine invertebrates can accurately reflect the practical diversity of the past ecosystems.

In collaboration with Mika Kovaliuski, from Florida University, Professor Kerry Tyler of UNLV Geo Sciences compared the residential maritime communities with the same skeleton remnant and 51 coastal records in 51 coastal locations in the North Carolina city of Tear Bay.

The study included more than 200 species of six major inverted groups, and it was unique that it usually includes more biology than studying.

The results show high active loyalty – this means that key environmental traits such as feeding strategies, movements, and residence use are well preserved in the gynecological record. Despite the natural prejudice in protection, almost all the active characters found in the lives and skeletons remaining in the rest of the communities.

Tyler said, “We have found that the focus is not just telling us which species lives in the past – they also save how the environmental system works.” “It is important to understand both the ancient ecosystem and the basic lines of today’s marine environment.”

What does this mean for environmental system protection efforts?

These results support the growing field of yellow biology, which uses the youngest geometric records to evaluate how the environmental system has changed over time – especially in response to human impact. By verifying the use of functional diversity measurements in fossil data, this research opens the door to better tracking strategies for more accurate reconstruction and maritime protection of the past environmental systems.

Protection organizations can reliably use the foam records when evaluating functional diversity in an ecosystem, which to compare species, perform these species, and the overall health of the ecosystem – all the key to the protection and maintenance of the ecosystem.

Knowing that the functional diversity has been stored in the gynecological record, it can help the protectionists determine which functions are lacking within this ecosystem, so they can determine where the environmental system needs to be changed to restore a healthy state.

“There is no ancient environmental system left on Earth, so when you are trying to restore an environmental system, it can be a difficult and challenging task without guessing as before,” said Tyler. “It has not been human influences or ancient for thousands of years, so we do not have a record of how the environmental system looks.