Because most emerging human pathogens originate in mammals, many studies aim to
identify host traits that determine the risk of sourcing zoonotic outbreaks. Studies regularly …

Introduced large herbivores have partly filled ecological gaps formed in the late Pleistocene,
when many of the Earth's megafauna were driven extinct. However, extant predators are …

Diet and body mass are inextricably linked in vertebrates: while herbivores and carnivores
have converged on much larger sizes, invertivores and omnivores are, on average, much …

Motivation A species' diet is central to understanding many aspects of its biology, including
its behaviour, movement, and ecological niche. The diets of terrestrial carnivorous …

Estuaries are one of the most important ecosystems with high biological productivity. They
connect freshwater and marine ecosystems, and the fish community assemblages face …

The structure of the world's mammal communities had remained remarkably consistent for
millions of years before modern humans (Homo sapiens) encountered them. However …

The loss of large carnivores is fundamentally restructuring modern mammal communities.
However, large carnivore removal is not exclusively a modern trend. The Pleistocene …