Mammalian niche conservation through deep time

LRG DeSantis, RA Beavins Tracy, CS Koontz… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Climate change alters species distributions, causing plants and animals to move north or to
higher elevations with current warming. Bioclimatic models predict species distributions …

The link between dental microwear and feeding ecology in tree sloths and armadillos (Mammalia: Xenarthra)

JL Green, NA Resar - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The Xenarthra represents an enigmatic clade of placental mammals that includes living tree
sloths, armadillos, and their extinct relatives, yet certain aspects of the biology of this group …

Form and Function in the Xenarthra–an Introduction to the Symposium Proceedings Volume

TJ Gaudin, F Pujos - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2012 - Springer
This special issue of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution represents the proceedings from a
symposium held in conjunction with the 9th International Congress of Vertebrate …

Dental microwear texture analysis of dentin: can mammalian diets be inferred without enamel?

RJ Haupt - 2012 - ir.vanderbilt.edu
Dietary studies of xenarthrans are challenging as geochemical or microscopic examinations
utilize enamel, which xenarthrans lack. The relative softness of dentin makes it potentially …