Palaeoecology of Southeast Asian megafauna‐bearing sites from the Pleistocene and a review of environmental changes in the region

J Louys, E Meijaard - Journal of Biogeography, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To reconstruct the palaeoenvironments of megafauna‐bearing sites from Pleistocene
Southeast Asia, and to describe general environmental changes in the region. Location …

Ecometrics: the traits that bind the past and present together

JT Eronen, PD Polly, M Fred, J Damuth… - Integrative …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We outline here an approach for understanding the biology of climate change, one that
integrates data at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Taxon‐free trait analysis, or …

Discontinuities, cross‐scale patterns, and the organization of ecosystems

KL Nash, CR Allen, DG Angeler, C Barichievy… - Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological structures and processes occur at specific spatiotemporal scales, and
interactions that occur across multiple scales mediate scale‐specific (eg, individual …

[書籍][B] Jurassic West: the dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world

J Foster - 2020 - books.google.com
The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million
years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American …

Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals II: application to fossil data

JT Eronen, K Puolamäki, L Liu… - Evolutionary …, 2010 - evolutionary-ecology.com
Background: We developed a method to estimate precipitation using mammalian
ecomorphology, specifically the relative height of the molars of herbivores (see companion …

Theropod guild structure and the tyrannosaurid niche assimilation hypothesis: implications for predatory dinosaur macroecology and ontogeny in later Late …

TR Holtz Jr - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Well-sampled dinosaur communities from the Jurassic through the early Late Cretaceous
show greater taxonomic diversity among larger (> 50 kg) theropod taxa than communities of …

Palaeoecological analyses of Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene sites: implications for Oligo-Miocene climate change in Australia

KJ Travouillon, S Legendre, M Archer… - Palaeogeography …, 2009 - Elsevier
During the Cenozoic, Australian environments changed from being dominated by warm and
humid rainforests to mainly arid/semiarid habitats comparable to those found today …

The relationship between diet and body mass in terrestrial mammals

S Pineda-Munoz, AR Evans, J Alroy - Paleobiology, 2016 - cambridge.org
Diet and body mass are highly important factors in mammalian ecology, and they have also
proven to be powerful paleoecological indicators. Our previous research has proposed a …

Assembly of modern mammal community structure driven by Late Cretaceous dental evolution, rise of flowering plants, and dinosaur demise

M Chen, CAE Strömberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The long-standing view that Mesozoic mammaliaforms living in dinosaur-dominated
ecosystems were ecologically constrained to small size and insectivory has been …

Estimation of body size in fossil mammals

SSB Hopkins - Methods in paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic …, 2018 - Springer
Body mass is a fundamental ecological parameter of mammals with implications for a variety
of other ecological characteristics. While it cannot be directly measured in fossil taxa, it can …