Conservation paleobiology is used to model future scenarios for species' range contraction or expansion.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by Wikipedia's own description of the field and corroborated by multiple independent scientific and journalistic sources describing use of fossil/paleoclimatic data to model future species range shifts. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Conservation paleobiology (wikipedia)
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-73795-9_1 (corroboration)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-does-conservation-paleobiology-serve-as-a-guide-for-restoring-ecosystems-180982731/ (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981999/ (corroboration)