Herbivory and body size: allometries of diet quality and gastrointestinal physiology, and implications for herbivore ecology and dinosaur gigantism
Digestive physiology has played a prominent role in explanations for terrestrial herbivore
body size evolution and size-driven diversification and niche differentiation. This is based on …
body size evolution and size-driven diversification and niche differentiation. This is based on …
Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution
The largest known dinosaurs weighed at least 20 million times as much as the smallest,
indicating exceptional phenotypic divergence. Previous studies have focused on extreme …
indicating exceptional phenotypic divergence. Previous studies have focused on extreme …
Farm vehicles approaching weights of sauropods exceed safe mechanical limits for soil functioning
Mechanization has greatly contributed to the success of modern agriculture, with vastly
expanded food production capabilities achieved by the higher capacity of farm machinery …
expanded food production capabilities achieved by the higher capacity of farm machinery …
Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage
Large-scale adaptive radiations might explain the runaway success of a minority of extant
vertebrate clades. This hypothesis predicts, among other things, rapid rates of morphological …
vertebrate clades. This hypothesis predicts, among other things, rapid rates of morphological …
Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans
INTRODUCTION The iterative evolution of secondarily marine tetrapods since the Paleozoic
offers the promise of better understanding how the anatomy and ecology of animals change …
offers the promise of better understanding how the anatomy and ecology of animals change …
[图书][B] Rock, bone, and ruin: An optimist's guide to the historical sciences
A Currie - 2024 - books.google.com
An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically
omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the …
omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the …
Why whales are big but not bigger: physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants
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 …
size remains unexplained. We measured feeding performance and prey quality to …
A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs
Titanosauria was the most diverse and successful lineage of sauropod dinosaurs. This clade
had its major radiation during the middle Early Cretaceous and survived up to the end of that …
had its major radiation during the middle Early Cretaceous and survived up to the end of that …
A new method for testing evolutionary rate variation and shifts in phenotypic evolution
S Castiglione, G Tesone, M Piccolo… - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying phenotypic evolutionary rates and their variation across phylogenetic trees is a
major issue in evolutionary biology. A number of phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM …
major issue in evolutionary biology. A number of phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM …
Herbivorous ecomorphology and specialization patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution
LE Zanno, PJ Makovicky - Proceedings of the National …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Interpreting key ecological parameters, such as diet, of extinct organisms without the benefit
of direct observation or explicit fossil evidence poses a formidable challenge for …
of direct observation or explicit fossil evidence poses a formidable challenge for …