Terrestrial ecosystems encompass a vast and vital component of Earth's biodiversity and ecosystem services. The effect of increased anthropogenic dominance on terrestrial communities defines major challenges for ecosystem conservation, including habitat destruction and fragmentation, climate change, species invasions and extinctions, and disease spread. Here, we integrate fossil, historical, and present-day organismal and ecological data to investigate how conservation paleobiology provides deep-time perspectives on terrestrial organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems impacted by anthropogenic processes. We relate research tools to conservation outputs and highlight gaps that currently limit conservation paleobiology from reaching its full impact on conservation practice and management. In doing so, we also highlight how the colonial legacies of conservation biology and paleobiology confound our understanding of present-day biodiversity, ecosystem processes, and conservation outlooks, and we make recommendations for more inclusive and ethical practices moving forward.

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回顾未来：保护古生物学视角下的陆地群落生态

陆地生态系统包含地球生物多样性和生态系统服务的巨大而重要的组成部分。人类活动对陆地群落影响的增加给生态系统保护带来了重大挑战，包括栖息地破坏和破碎、气候变化、物种入侵和灭绝以及疾病传播。在这里，我们整合了化石、历史和当今的生物和生态数据，以研究保护古生物学如何为受人类过程影响的陆地生物、种群、群落和生态系统提供深入的视角。我们将研究工具与保护成果联系起来，并强调目前限制保护古生物学对保护实践和管理产生全面影响的差距。在此过程中，我们还强调了保护生物学和古生物学的殖民遗产如何混淆了我们对当今生物多样性、生态系统过程和保护前景的理解，并就未来更具包容性和道德的实践提出了建议。