Rewilding: science, practice, and politics

J Lorimer, C Sandom, P Jepson… - Annual Review of …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Rewilding is being promoted as an ambitious alternative to current approaches to nature
conservation. Interest is growing in popular and scientific literatures, and rewilding is the …

Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

PM Sander, A Christian, M Clauss… - Biological …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

[کتاب][B] Growth: from microorganisms to megacities

V Smil - 2019‏ - books.google.com
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …

[کتاب][B] The evolutionary strategies that shape ecosystems

JP Grime, S Pierce - 2012‏ - books.google.com
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …

A universal scaling relationship between body mass and proximal limb bone dimensions in quadrupedal terrestrial tetrapods

NE Campione, DC Evans - BMC biology, 2012‏ - Springer
Background Body size is intimately related to the physiology and ecology of an organism.
Therefore, accurate and consistent body mass estimates are essential for inferring …

Why whales are big but not bigger: physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants

JA Goldbogen, DE Cade, DM Wisniewska, J Potvin… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
The largest animals are marine filter feeders, but the underlying mechanism of their large
size remains unexplained. We measured feeding performance and prey quality to …

[کتاب][B] Australia's mammal extinctions: a 50,000-year history

C Johnson - 2006‏ - books.google.com
Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …

Scaling and power-laws in ecological systems

PA Marquet, RA Quiñones, S Abades… - Journal of …, 2005‏ - journals.biologists.com
Scaling relationships (where body size features as the independent variable) and power-law
distributions are commonly reported in ecological systems. In this review we analyze scaling …

[کتاب][B] Forensic anthropology training manual

KR Burns - 2015‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
Provides basic information on successfully collecting, processing, analyzing, and describing
skeletal human remains. Forensic Anthropology Training Manual serves as a practical …

[PDF][PDF] Myrmecophily in beetles (Coleoptera): evolutionary patterns and biological mechanisms

J Parker - Myrmecological news, 2016‏ - antwiki.org
Socially parasitic myrmecophily has evolved numerous times in arthropods, but
myrmecophilous lineages are non-randomly distributed across phylogeny. Evolution of this …