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Multiple ecological pathways to extinction in mammals
- A. Davidson, M. Hamilton, Alison G. Boyer, J. H. Brown, G. Ceballos
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 30 June 2009
As human population and resource demands continue to grow, biodiversity conservation has never been more critical. About one-quarter of all mammals are in danger of extinction, and more than half of… Expand
Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity
- J. Payne, Alison G. Boyer, +10 authors S. Wang
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 6 January 2009
The maximum size of organisms has increased enormously since the initial appearance of life >3.5 billion years ago (Gya), but the pattern and timing of this size increase is poorly known.… Expand
The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals
- F. A. Smith, Alison G. Boyer, +17 authors M. Uhen
- Biology, Geology
- Science
- 26 November 2010
How Mammals Grew in Size Mammals diversified greatly after the end-Cretaceous extinction, which eliminated the dominant land animals (dinosaurs). Smith et al. (p. 1216) examined how the maximum size… Expand
Drivers and hotspots of extinction risk in marine mammals
- A. Davidson, Alison G. Boyer, +5 authors J. Brown
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 30 January 2012
The world's oceans are undergoing profound changes as a result of human activities. However, the consequences of escalating human impacts on marine mammal biodiversity remain poorly understood. The… Expand
Extinction patterns in the avifauna of the Hawaiian islands
- Alison G. Boyer
- Biology
- 1 May 2008
Through the continuing accumulation of fossil evidence, it is clear that the avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands underwent a large-scale extinction event around the time of Polynesian arrival. A second… Expand
Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific
- R. Duncan, Alison G. Boyer, T. Blackburn
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 25 March 2013
The largest extinction event in the Holocene occurred on Pacific islands, where Late Quaternary fossils reveal the loss of thousands of bird populations following human colonization of the region.… Expand
Extinctions and the loss of ecological function in island bird communities
- Alison G. Boyer, W. Jetz
- Biology
- 1 June 2014
Aim
Because of the negative impact that ongoing biodiversity loss may have on ecosystem properties that are critical for humans, understanding the relationship between extinction and functional… Expand
The maximum rate of mammal evolution
- A. Evans, D. Jones, +17 authors M. Uhen
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 30 January 2012
How fast can a mammal evolve from the size of a mouse to the size of an elephant? Achieving such a large transformation calls for major biological reorganization. Thus, the speed at which this occurs… Expand
The island rule and the evolution of body size in the deep sea
- C. McClain, Alison G. Boyer, G. Rosenberg
- Biology
- 1 September 2006
Aim Our goal is to test the generality of the island rule – a graded trend from gigantism in small-bodied species to dwarfism in large-bodied species – in the deep sea, a non-insular but potentially… Expand
Long-term ecological change in a conservation hotspot: the fossil avifauna of Mé Auré Cave, New Caledonia
- Alison G. Boyer, H. James, S. Olson, J. Grant-Mackie
- Biology
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- 4 July 2010
Through the continuing accumulation of fossil evidence, it is clear that first human arrival on islands around the world was linked to a rise in the extinction rate for vertebrates. Bones in… Expand