F. Smith

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Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
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.
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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.
Evolution of Body Size in the Woodrat over the Past 25,000 Years of Climate Change
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
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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.
ENERGY AND MATERIAL FLOW THROUGH THE URBAN ECOSYSTEM
▪ 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…
Pleistocene Rewilding: An Optimistic Agenda for Twenty‐First Century Conservation
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity
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This period-level compilation of the largest known fossil organisms demonstrates that maximum size increased by 16 orders of magnitude since life first appeared in the fossil record.
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