Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- F. Smith, S. K. Lyons, J. Haskell
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 1 December 2003
The purpose of this data set was to compile body mass information for all mammals on Earth so that we could investigate the patterns of body mass seen across geographic and taxonomic space and…
Ecotypic variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting the rules.
- V. Millien, S. Kathleen Lyons, L. Olson, F. Smith, A. B. Wilson, Y. Yom-Tov
- Environmental Science, GeographyEcology Letters
- 1 July 2006
This work examines several well-known ecogeographical rules, especially those pertaining to body size in contemporary, historical and fossil taxa, and reviews the evidence showing that rules of geographical variation in response to variation in the local environment can also apply to morphological changes through time in Response to climate change.
ENERGY AND MATERIAL FLOW THROUGH THE URBAN ECOSYSTEM
- E. H. Decker, S. Elliott, F. Smith, D. Blake, F. Rowland
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2000
▪ Abstract This paper reviews the available data and models on energy and material flows through the world's 25 largest cities. Throughput is categorized as stored, transformed, or passive for the…
Evolution of Body Size in the Woodrat over the Past 25,000 Years of Climate Change
- F. Smith, J. Betancourt, James H. Brown
- Environmental Science, GeographyScience
- 22 December 1995
Microevolutionary changes in the body size of the bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) since the last glacial maximum were estimated from measurements of fecal pellets preserved in paleomiddens…
Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents
- S. K. Lyons, F. Smith, James H. Brown
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 2004
It is found that body size distributions of all mammals in North America, South America, Africa and Australia before and after the late Pleistocene show a similar large-size selectivity of extinctions across continents, despite differences in timing.
Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
- Y. Malhi, C. Doughty, M. Galetti, F. Smith, J. Svenning, J. Terborgh
- Environmental ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 25 January 2016
Progress is reviewed in understanding of how megafauna affect ecosystem physical and trophic structure, species composition, biogeochemistry, and climate, drawing on special features of PNAS and Ecography that have been published as a result of an international workshop held in Oxford in 2014.
Pleistocene Rewilding: An Optimistic Agenda for Twenty‐First Century Conservation
- C. Josh Donlan, J. Berger, H. Greene
- Environmental ScienceAmerican Naturalist
- 25 September 2006
Pleistocene rewilding would deliberately promote large, long‐lived species over pest and weed assemblages, facilitate the persistence and ecological effectiveness of megafauna on a global scale, and broaden the underlying premise of conservation from managing extinction to encompass restoring ecological and evolutionary processes.
Similarity of Mammalian Body Size across the Taxonomic Hierarchy and across Space and Time
- F. Smith, James H. Brown, M. Willig
- Environmental Science, BiologyAmerican Naturalist
- 19 April 2004
It is suspected that life‐history and ecological parameters are so tightly constrained by allometry at diminutive size that animals can only adapt to novel ecological conditions by modifying body size, and body size patterns across the body size spectrum are consistent across the size spectrum.
The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals
Analysis suggests that although the primary driver for the evolution of giant mammals was diversification to fill ecological niches, environmental temperature and land area may have ultimately constrained the maximum size achieved.
Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use
- S. Ernest, B. Enquist, B. Tiffney
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 1 November 2003
Temperature-corrected rates of individual-level biomass production show the same body-size dependence across a wide range of aerobic eukaryotes, from unicellular organisms to mammals and vascular plants, as well as other important factors constraining ecological structure and dynamics.
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