Disruption of trait-environment relationships in African megafauna occurred in the middle Pleistocene

DA Lauer, AM Lawing, RA Short, FK Manthi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Ecometrics demonstrates that the functional dental traits of carnivoran communities are filtered by climate

L Siciliano‐Martina, JL McGuire… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ecometric models of small mammal hypsodonty can estimate paleoprecipitation across eastern Africa

JA Schap, JL McGuire, AM Lawing, FK Manthi… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecometric analyses use the relationships between functional traits and the environment at
the community level to quantitatively estimate past climatic and environmental variables at …

Unique functional diversity during early Cenozoic mammal radiation of North America

AB Shupinski, PJ Wagner, FA Smith… - Proceedings …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mammals influence nearly all aspects of energy flow and habitat structure in modern
terrestrial ecosystems. However, anthropogenic effects have probably altered mammalian …

[HTML][HTML] The Past as a Lens for Biodiversity Conservation on a Dynamically Changing Planet: Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating …

RA Short, JL McGuire, PD Polly… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We are in a modern biodiversity crisis that will restructure community compositions and
ecological functions globally. Large mammals, important contributors to ecosystem function …

Using Ecomorphology to Understand the Evolutionary History and Spatial Biodiversity of Wading Birds

R Natale - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Ecomorphology, the field that looks at the relationship between the morphological features
of an organism and its ecology, is a valuable framework that has been applied to answer a …