Our own species, Homo sapiens, has been able to invade near-all global ecosystems
through a unique form of ecological plasticity. To understand how Homo sapiens have been …

We present the Eco-ISEA3H database, a compilation of global spatial data characterizing
climate, geology, land cover, physical and human geography, and the geographic ranges of …

Despite its important position close to the Isthmus of Panama, and abundance of fossil
localities, the palaeoenvironment of the Falcón Basin in northwestern Venezuela has been …

We are in a modern biodiversity crisis that will restructure community compositions and
ecological functions globally. Large mammals, important contributors to ecosystem function …

Aim We investigate locomotor function in artiodactyls, represented by calcaneal gear ratio,
as it relates to multiple environments. Using an ecometric approach, we develop a trait …

Mammalian megafauna have been critical to the functioning of Earth's biosphere for millions
of years. However, since the Plio-Pleistocene, their biodiversity has declined concurrently …

Dental ecometric traits in large herbivores have been used to reconstruct
palaeoenvironments, given the known relationships that these traits have to modern …

Terrestrial carnivorans, with their diverse diets and unique adaptations such as the
carnassial tooth, offer insights into the connections between functional traits and the climatic …

Ecometric analyses use the relationships between functional traits and the environment at
the community level to quantitatively estimate past climatic and environmental variables at …

Megadolodinae is a clade of tropical bunodont litopterns that includes three previously
recognized species from Miocene fossil sites from northern South America. Here, we report …