Using palaeoecology to determine baseline ecological requirements and interaction networks for de-extinction candidate species

Flexibility of diet and habitat in Pleistocene South Asian mammals: Implications for the fate of the giant fossil ape Gigantopithecus

(2017) Hervé Bocherens et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Defining invasiveness and invasibility in ecological networks

(2016) Cang Hui et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Island-wide aridity did not trigger recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar

(2016) Brooke E. Crowley et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A new method to extract and purify DNA from allophanic soils and paleosols, and potential for paleoenvironmental reconstruction and other applications

(2016) Yu-Tuan Huang et al.   GEODERMA

Moa diet fits the bill: virtual reconstruction incorporating mummified remains and prediction of biomechanical performance in avian giants

(2016) Marie R. G. Attard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dietary interpretations for extinct megafauna using coprolites, intestinal contents and stable isotopes: Complimentary or contradictory?

(2016) Nicolas J. Rawlence et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

For Host's Sake: The Pluses of Parasite Preservation

(2016) Hamish G. Spencer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Nitrogen cycling in an extreme hyperarid environment inferred from δ15N analyses of plants, soils and herbivore diet

(2016) Francisca P. Díaz et al.   Scientific Reports

Bringing back the aurochs

(2015) E. Stokstad   SCIENCE

Adaptive rewiring aggravates the effects of species loss in ecosystems

(2015) David Gilljam et al.   Nature Communications

Gut Microbiome of an 11th Century A.D. Pre-Columbian Andean Mummy

(2015) Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez et al.   PLoS One

Reintroduction and De-extinction

(2014) D. Jorgensen   BIOSCIENCE

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Role of the Microbiota in Immunity and Inflammation

(2014) Yasmine Belkaid et al.   CELL

A simple stochastic model for complex coextinctions in mutualistic networks: robustness decreases with connectance

(2014) Marcos Costa Vieira et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Late Quaternary climate change, relict populations and present-day refugia in the northern Atacama Desert: a case study from Quebrada La Higuera (18° S)

(2014) María Isabel Mujica et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Novel interactions between non-native mammals and fungi facilitate establishment of invasive pines

(2014) Jamie R. Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A new era in palaeomicrobiology: prospects for ancient dental calculus as a long-term record of the human oral microbiome

(2014) C. Warinner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific

(2014) Vicki A. Thomson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reintroducing resurrected species: selecting DeExtinction candidates

(2014) Philip J. Seddon et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Ethics of Reviving Long Extinct Species

(2013) RONALD SANDLER   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A Megafauna’s Microfauna: Gastrointestinal Parasites of New Zealand’s Extinct Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

(2013) Jamie R. Wood et al.   PLoS One

Microbial Communities in Pre-Columbian Coprolites

(2013) Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez et al.   PLoS One

Resolving lost herbivore community structure using coprolites of four sympatric moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes)

(2013) J. R. Wood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Behavioural ecology of Late Pleistocene bears (Ursus spelaeus, Ursus ingressus): Insight from stable isotopes (C, N, O) and tooth microwear

(2013) Susanne C. Münzel et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Proboscideans and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene Great Lakes: landscape, vegetation, and stable isotopes

(2013) Jessica Z. Metcalfe et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A comparative study of ancient environmental DNA to pollen and macrofossils from lake sediments reveals taxonomic overlap and additional plant taxa

(2013) Mikkel Winther Pedersen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Megafaunal split ends: microscopical characterisation of hair structure and function in extinct woolly mammoth and woolly rhino

(2013) Silvana R. Tridico et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Role of the gut microbiota in health and chronic gastrointestinal disease: understanding a hidden metabolic organ

(2013) Caitriona M. Guinane et al.   Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

A Lost Link between a Flightless Parrot and a Parasitic Plant and the Potential Role of Coprolites in Conservation Paleobiology

(2012) Jamie R. Wood et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Molecular analysis of the intestinal microbiome composition of mammoth and woolly rhinoceros

(2012) A. V. Mardanov et al.   Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics

Understanding and planning ecological restoration of plant-pollinator networks

(2012) Mariano Devoto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High-Resolution Coproecology: Using Coprolites to Reconstruct the Habits and Habitats of New Zealand’s Extinct Upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus)

(2012) Jamie R. Wood et al.   PLoS One

Insights from Characterizing Extinct Human Gut Microbiomes

(2012) Raul Y. Tito et al.   PLoS One

The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

(2012) M. E. Allentoft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The effect of climate and environmental change on the megafaunal moa of New Zealand in the absence of humans

(2012) Nicolas J. Rawlence et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Therapeutic Helminth Infection of Macaques with Idiopathic Chronic Diarrhea Alters the Inflammatory Signature and Mucosal Microbiota of the Colon

(2012) Mara Jana Broadhurst et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Variations of oral microbiota are associated with pancreatic diseases including pancreatic cancer

(2011) James J Farrell et al.   GUT

Finite element analysis of ursid cranial mechanics and the prediction of feeding behaviour in the extinct giant Agriotherium africanum

(2011) C. C. Oldfield et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A comparative study of ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and macrofossils from permafrost sediments of northern Siberia reveals long-term vegetational stability

(2011) TINA JØRGENSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Palaeo-environmental and dietary analysis of intestinal contents of a mammoth calf (Yamal Peninsula, northwest Siberia)

(2011) Bas van Geel et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) nesting material from rockshelters in the semi‐arid interior of South Island, New Zealand

(2010) Jamie R. Wood   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND

Seed dispersal effectiveness revisited: a conceptual review

(2010) Eugene W. Schupp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mycological evidence of coprophagy from the feces of an Alaskan Late Glacial mammoth

(2010) Bas van Geel et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Malaria, mummies, mutations: Tutankhamun’s archaeological autopsy

(2010) Christian Timmann et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Extinction implications of a chenopod browse diet for a giant Pleistocene kangaroo

(2009) Gavin J. Prideaux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The sixth mass coextinction: are most endangered species parasites and mutualists?

(2009) R. R. Dunn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Tick From a Prehistoric Arizona Coprolite

(2008) Keith L. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Phylotyping and Functional Analysis of Two Ancient Human Microbiomes

(2008) Raúl Y. Tito et al.   PLoS One

Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)

(2008) J WOOD et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS