In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post author Thayara S. Carrasco – a a postdoc at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, explores the paper “Long-term changes in functional diversity and its implications for mammalian conservation and ecological restoration in a grassland ecosystem”, published in Functional Ecology. Thayara discusses the ecological characteristics and functions of species across different time periods in the Brazilian Pampa, the challenges of working … Continue reading Thayara S. Carrasco | What do fossils teach us about conservation and ecological restoration?