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  • Animal Body Size: Linking pattern and process across space, time and taxonomic group 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Lyons, Sara K. (2013)
  • Body Size Evolution Across the Geozoic 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Payne, Jonathan L.; Heim, Noel A.; Balk, Meghan A.; Finnegan, Seth; Kowalewski, Michal; Lyons, S. K.; McClain, Craig R.; McShea, Daniel W.; Novack-Gottshall, Philip; Anich, Paula Spaeth; Wang, Steve C. (2016)
    The Geozoic encompasses the 3.6 Ga interval in Earth history when life has existed. Over this time, life has diversified from exclusively tiny, single-celled organisms to include large, complex multicellular forms. Just ...
  • Body size shifts influence effects of increasing temperatures on ectotherm metabolism 
    Riemer, Kristina; Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J.; Smith, Felisa A.; Harris, David J.; Ernest, S. K. M. (2018)
    Aim Warmer temperatures directly increase metabolic rates of ectotherms, but temperature also indirectly affects metabolic rates. Higher temperatures result in smaller body sizes and associated decreases in metabolic rates, ...
  • The changing role of mammal life histories in Late Quaternary extinction vulnerability on continents and islands 
    Lyons, S. Kathleen; Miller, Joshua H.; Fraser, Danielle; Smith, Felisa A.; Boyer, Alison; Lindsey, Emily; Mychajliw, Alexis M. (2016)
    Understanding extinction drivers in a human-dominated world is necessary to preserve biodiversity. We provide an overview of Quaternary extinctions and compare mammalian extinction events on continents and islands after ...
  • Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution 
    Okie, Jordan G.; Boyer, Alison G.; Brown, James H.; Costa, Daniel P.; Ernest, S. K. Morgan; Evans, Alistair R.; Fortelius, Mikael; Gittleman, John L.; Hamilton, Marcus J.; Harding, Larisa E.; Lintulaakso, Kari; Lyons, Sara K.; Saarinen, Juha J.; Smith, Felisa A.; Stephens, Patrick R.; Theodor, Jessica; Uhen, Mark D.; Sibly, Richard M. (2013)
    Body size affects nearly all aspects of organismal biology, so it is important to understand the constraints and dynamics of body size evolution. Despite empirical work on the macroevolution and macroecology of minimum and ...
  • The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Boyer, Alison G.; Brown, James H.; Costa, Daniel P.; Dayan, Tamar; Ernest, S. K. Morgan; Evans, Alistair R.; Fortelius, Mikael; Gittleman, John L.; Hamilton, Marcus J.; Harding, Larisa E.; Lintulaakso, Kari; Lyons, Sara K.; McCain, Christy; Okie, Jordan G.; Saarinen, Juha J.; Sibly, Richard M.; Stephens, Patrick R.; Theodor, Jessica; Uhen, Mark D. (2010)
    The extinction of dinosaurs at the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary was the seminal event that opened the door for the subsequent diversification of terrestrial mammals. Our compilation of maximum body size at the ...
  • The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective 
    Payne, Jonathan L.; McClain, Craig R.; Boyer, Alison G.; Brown, James H.; Finnegan, Seth; Kowalewski, Michal; Krause, Richard A.; Lyons, Sara K.; McShea, Daniel W.; Novack-Gottshall, Philip M.; Smith, Felisa A.; Spaeth, Paula; Stempien, Jennifer A.; Wang, Steve C. (2011)
  • Exploring the influence of ancient and historic megaherbivore extirpations on the global methane budget 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Hammond, John I.; Balk, Meghan A.; Elliott, Scott M.; Lyons, Sara K.; Pardi, Melissa I.; Tomé, Catalina P.; Wagner, Peter J.; Westover, Marie L. (2016)
    Globally, large-bodied wild mammals are in peril. Because "megamammals" have a disproportionate influence on vegetation, trophic interactions, and ecosystem function, declining populations are of considerable ...
  • The fossil record of the sixth extinction 
    Plotnick, Roy E.; Smith, Felisa A.; Lyons, S. Kathleen (2016)
    Comparing the magnitude of the current biodiversity crisis with those in the fossil record is difficult without an understanding of differential preservation. Integrating data from palaeontological databases with information ...
  • The Geozoic Supereon 
    Kowalewski, Michal; Payne, Jonathan L.; Smith, Felisa A.; Wang, SteveC; McShea, Daniel W.; Xiao, Shuhai; Novak-Gottshall, Philip M.; McClain, Craig R.; Krause, Jr,R.A.; Boyer, Alison; Finnegan, Seth; Lyons, S. Kathleen; Stempien, Jennifer A.; Alroy, John; Spaeth, Paula A. (2011)
  • How big should a mammal be? A macroecological look at mammalian body size over space and time 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Lyons, Sara K. (2011)
    Macroecology was developed as a big picture statistical approach to the study of ecology and evolution. By focusing on broadly occurring patterns and processes operating at large spatial and temporal scales rather than on ...
  • The importance of considering animal body mass in IPCC greenhouse inventories and the underappreciated role of wild herbivores 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Lyons, Sara K.; Wagner, Peter; Elliott, Scott M. (2015)
    Methane is an important greenhouse gas but characterizing production by source sector has proven difficult. Current estimates suggest herbivores produce ~20% (~76-189 Tg yr(-1) ) of methane globally, with wildlife contributions ...
  • The influence of flight on patterns of body size diversity and heritability 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Lyons, Sara K.; Brown, James H.; Jones, Kate E.; Maurer, Brian A. (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  • Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Smith, Emma A. Elliott; Villasenor, Amelia; Tome, Catalina P.; Lyons, S. Kathleen; Newsome, Seth D. (2022)
    The conservation status of large-bodied mammals is dire. Their decline has serious consequences because they have unique ecological roles not replicated by smaller-bodied animals. Here, we use the fossil record of the ...
  • Macroecological patterns in body size of mammals over space and time 
    Lyons, Sara K.; Smith, Felisa A. (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  • Macroecology: more than the division of food and space among species on continents 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Lyons, Sara K.; Morgan Ernest, S. K.; Brown, James H. (2008)
    Macroecology is a big-picture, statistical approach to the study of ecology. By focusing on broadly occurring patterns and processes operating at large spatial and temporal scales and ignoring localized and fine-scaled ...
  • The maximum rate of mammal evolution 
    Evans, Alistair R.; Jones, David; Boyer, Alison G.; Brown, James H.; Costa, Daniel P.; Ernest, S. K. M.; Fitzgerald, Erich M. G.; Fortelius, Mikael; Gittleman, John L.; Hamilton, Marcus J.; Harding, Larisa E.; Lintulaakso, Kari; Lyons, Sara K.; Okie, Jordan G.; Saarinen, Juha J.; Sibly, Richard M.; Smith, Felisa A.; Stephens , Patrick R.; Theodor, Jessica M.; Uhen, Mark D. (2012)
    How fast can a mammal evolve from the size of a mouse to the size of an elephant? Achieving such a large transformation calls for major biological reorganization. Thus, the speed at which this occurs has important implications ...
  • Methane and megafauna reply 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Elliott, Scott M.; Lyons, Sara K. (2011)
  • Methane emissions from extinct megafauna 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Elliott, Scott M.; Lyons, Sara K. (2010)
  • On being the right size: the importance of size to life history, ecology and evolution 
    Smith, Felisa A.; Lyons, Sara K. (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

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