Lessons for conservation from beneath the pavement

Alexis M Mychajliw; Elizabeth R Ellwood; Peter S Alagona; R Scott Anderson; Mairin A Balisi; Eric Biber; Justin L Brown; Jessie George; Austin J W Hendy; Lila Higgins; Courtney A Hofman; Ashley Leger; Miguel A Ordeñana; Gregory B Pauly; Breanna J Putman; John M Randall; Seth P D Riley; Allison J Shultz; M Allison Stegner; Thomas A Wake; Emily L Lindsey

doi:10.1111/cobi.13983

Lessons for conservation from beneath the pavement

Conserv Biol. 2022 Dec;36(6):e13983. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13983. Epub 2022 Sep 7.

Authors

Alexis M Mychajliw^{1

2}, Elizabeth R Ellwood^{1

3}, Peter S Alagona⁴, R Scott Anderson⁵, Mairin A Balisi^{1

6

7}, Eric Biber⁸, Justin L Brown⁹, Jessie George¹⁰, Austin J W Hendy¹¹, Lila Higgins^{12

13}, Courtney A Hofman^{14

15}, Ashley Leger¹⁶, Miguel A Ordeñana^{12

13}, Gregory B Pauly^{13

17}, Breanna J Putman^{13

18}, John M Randall¹⁹, Seth P D Riley^{9

20}, Allison J Shultz²¹, M Allison Stegner^{22

23}, Thomas A Wake^{24

25}, Emily L Lindsey^{1

26

27}

Affiliations

¹ La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA.
² Department of Biology and Environmental Studies Program, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, USA.
³ iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁴ Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
⁵ School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
⁶ Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.
⁷ Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, The Webb Schools, Claremont, California, USA.
⁸ School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁹ National Park Service, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, California, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
¹¹ Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA.
¹² Community Science Program, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA.
¹³ Urban Nature Research Center, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
¹⁵ Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology & Microbiome Research, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
¹⁶ Cogstone Resource Management, Orange, California, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Herpetology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA.
¹⁹ The Nature Conservancy, California Chapter, San Diego, California, USA.
²⁰ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
²¹ Department of Ornithology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA.
²² Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University, California, USA.
²³ Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
²⁴ The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
²⁵ Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
²⁶ Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
²⁷ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

PMID: 36069058
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13983

No abstract available

Keywords: archeology; baselines; cities; community science; museums; paleoecology; paleontology; urban ecology.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Conservation of Natural Resources*
Ecology*