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sedimentary environments in detail, and also trace-fossil distributions at the basin
scale, are needed to test and improve the model and help to move lake-basin ich-
nology forward as an applied discipline useful for stratigraphy, sedimentology,
and paleoecology. Neoichnological studies that articulate both the behavioral
ecology of tracemaking organisms (i.e., autecology) and the environmental ecol-
ogy of trace-producing communities (i.e., synecology) continue to be essential
for understanding organism/sediment interactions in continental environments.
Taphonomic studies that analyze sedimentary processes and consider the initial
and preserved distributions of biogenic structures in different depositional set-
tings will help to better apply neoichnology to understand the rock record.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful for discussions with Robin Renaut, Bernie Owen, Mike Smith and Alan
Carroll, which contributed to this work. Sincere thanks are also extended to Robin Renaut
for input on
Table 1
and co-supervision of the doctoral thesis of J. J. S. and to Jordi de Gibert
and Robin Renaut for sharing some of the photographs used here. Funding was provided by
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grants to J. J. S. (PGS-
D scholarship, PDF fellowship), L. A. B. (Discovery Grant # 311726-05 and -08), M. G. M. (Dis-
covery Grant 311727-05 and -08), and Robin Renaut (Research Grant RG629-03). Fieldwork
was partially funded by the International Association of Sedimentologists, the Geological Soci-
ety of America, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The helpful reviews by
Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch and J¨rg Schneider are very much appreciated. Sincere thanks
are also extended to editors Dirk Knaust and Richard Bromley for their careful reviews and the
invitation to contribute to this volume.
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