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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …