Marine fossils are a reliable benchmark for degrading and collapsing ecosystems – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/marine-fossils-are-a-reliable-benchmark-for-degrading-and-collapsing-ecosystems/
Biologists attempting to conserve and restore denuded environments are limited by their scant knowledge of what those environments looked like before the arrival of humans. This is especially true of coastal ecosystems, many of which had already been drastically altered by pollution and overharvesti
Carrie Tyler, currently an assistant professor of biology at the University of Nevada