[HTML][HTML] Paleoenvironment and paleoecology associated with the early phases of the Great American Biotic Interchange based on stable isotope analysis of fossil …

D Sanz-Pérez, CI Montalvo, AE Mehl… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
The analysis of stable isotopes in fossil mammals is useful for reconstructing
paleoenvironmental and paleoecological conditions, but has been rarely applied to the …

Phylogenetic biome conservatism as a key concept for an integrative understanding of evolutionary history: Galliformes and Falconiformes as study cases

JS Pelegrin, JL Cantalapiedra… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Biomes are climatically and biotically distinctive macroecological units that formed over
geological time scales. Their features consolidate them as 'evolutionary scenarios', with their …

Vrba was right: Historical climate fragmentation, and not current climate, explains mammal biogeography

S Gamboa, S Galván, S Varela - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate plays a crucial role in sha** species distribution and evolution over time. Dr
Vrba's Resource‐Use hypothesis posited that zones at the extremes of temperature and …

A phylogenetic study to assess the link between biome specialization and diversification in swallowtail butterflies

S Gamboa, FL Condamine… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The resource‐use hypothesis, proposed by ES Vrba, states that habitat fragmentation
caused by climatic oscillations would affect particularly biome specialists (species inhabiting …

[HTML][HTML] Palaeoclimatic analysis of Quaternary terrestrial small mammal assemblages from the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

ÁC Domínguez-García, JM López-García… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding past climatic changes is one of the central challenges in palaeontological
research. The Bioclimatic Model (BM) enables the reconstruction of qualitative and …

Macroevolutionary processes in turtles (Testudines): a view from biomic specialization and historical climatic changes

JS Thomas, S Gamboa… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The resource-use hypothesis proposed by Elisabeth S. Vrba suggests that lineages display
varying tendencies toward generalism or specialization in biome occupancy, with a …

Evolution and diversification dynamics of butterflies

AY Kawahara, C Storer, APS Carvalho, DM Plotkin… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have diversified via
coevolution with plants and in response to dispersals following key geological events. These …

Bayesian network analysis reveals the assembly drivers and emergent stability of Eurasian Pleistocene large mammal communities

S Bekeraitė, I Juchnevičiūtė, A Spiridonov - Journal of Mammalian …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Analysis of fossil assemblage structure can help illuminate the processes sha**
the assembly of ecological communities. Using Bayesian network analysis methods, we …

Assessing the habitat and anthropogenic drivers on meso-and macromammals diversity in the western Mediterranean basin

I Fernández Cabello - 2023 - dugi-doc.udg.edu
In the Mediterranean Basin, considered a biodiversity hotspot, 184 mammal species are
found. Its presence and abundance inside the region are influenced by several factors. This …