The landscape of tooth shape: Over 20 years of dental topography in primates

MA Berthaume, V Lazzari, F Guy - … Anthropology: Issues, News …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Diet plays an incontrovertible role in primate evolution, affecting anatomy, growth and
development, behavior, and social structure. It should come as no surprise that a myriad of …

Simultaneous extinction of Madagascar's megaherbivores correlates with late Holocene human-caused landscape transformation

JP Hansford, AM Lister, EM Weston… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the dynamics and drivers of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions requires
direct radiometric date series that are assessed within probabilistic statistical frameworks …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated framework for dynamic conservation of bamboo forest in giant panda habitat under climate change

X Shang, W Qin, B Yang, Q Dai, H Pan, X Yang… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change presents formidable challenges to forest biodiversity and carbon storage.
Bamboo forests will be affected particularly in Southwest China's mountainous regions …

Assessing the state of knowledge of contemporary climate change and primates

AB Bernard, AJ Marshall - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, interest in understanding the effects of climate change on species and
ecological systems has sharply increased. We quantify and contextualize the current state of …

[HTML][HTML] Relevance of the eastern African coastal forest for early hominin biogeography

JCA Joordens, CS Feibel, HB Vonhof… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
The influence of climate change on hominin evolution is much debated. Two issues hamper
our understanding of this process: the limited hominin fossil record, and incomplete …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating interspecific relationships into species distribution models can better assess the response of species to climate change, a case study of two …

X Ye, Q Wu, X Li, X Zhao - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Whether the distribution of species can track future changes in climate will ultimately
determine their survival. However, traditional predictions of species distributions in response …

Do functional traits offset the effects of fragmentation? The case of large‐bodied diurnal lemur species

TM Eppley, L Santini, JC Tinsman… - American journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Primates worldwide are faced with increasing threats making them more vulnerable to
extinction. Anthropogenic disturbances, such as habitat degradation and fragmentation, are …

Quantitative analyses of squamate dentition demonstrate novel morphological patterns

K Christensen, KM Melstrom - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Squamates are ideal subjects for investigating relationships between diet and dental
patterns because they exhibit wide dietary diversity, marked variation in dental shape, and …

Effects of cropping, smoothing, triangle count, and mesh resolution on 6 dental topographic metrics

MA Berthaume, J Winchester, K Kupczik - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Dental topography is a widely used method for quantifying dental morphology and inferring
dietary ecology in animals. Differences in methodology have brought into question the …

Dental topographic proxies for ecological characteristics in carnivoran mammals

E Waldman, Y Gonzalez, JJ Flynn… - Journal of anatomy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Form‐function relationships in mammalian feeding systems are active topics of research in
evolutionary biology. This is due principally to their fundamental importance for …