We investigated palaeoclimatic change in the Turkana Basin during the Pliocene climatic
shift toward increased aridity in Africa. We analyzed the palaeoecology of this area using …

Nature's complexity is intriguing, but the circumstances determining whether or how order
emerges from such complexity remains a matter of extensive research. Using the …

The correlation between body mass and both skeletal and dental measures in living
mammals has enabled paleontologists to obtain reliable estimates of body size for extinct …

Does climate determine the trophic organization of communities around the world? A recent
study showed that a limited number of community trophic structures emerge when co …

Ecological diversity analysis (EDA) is a technique that uses ecological attributes of
mammals to reconstruct the community structure and habitat of a fossil locality. EDAs of …

Pleistocene mammalian communities display unique features which differ from present-day
faunas. The paleocommunities were characterized by the extraordinarily large body size of …

Astragalar fossils have been intensively studied as an indicator of the functional morphology
and phylogenetic relationships of mammals. However, relatively few studies have …

Fundamentally rooted in Odum's niche concept, mammal community studies are based on
the understanding that each resident species reveals information about its environment …

Questions: Are different types of terrestrial mammalian-dominated ecosystems characterized
by specific taxon-free patterns in the trophic structure of the mammalian community? If so …

Aim To quantify how mammal community structure relates to heterogeneity of vegetation for
palaeoecological reconstructions, and to test whether historical or environmental factors are …