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Are Hibernators Toast? Global Climate Change and Prolonged Seasonal Hibernation
Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.This review examines how global climate change impacts mammalian hibernators, emphasizing physiological, ecological and phenological aspects. Many hibernating species already inhabit extreme environments, thus are at risk as climate variability intensifies.
Kathrin H. Dausmann +1 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Aim We address a critical gap in the elevational community ecology of tropical non‐volant mammals in the Australian and Oceanian zoogeographic realms. Specifically, we document alpha and beta diversity, environmental predictors and community composition of individual clades in relation to their ecology and evolutionary history along an ...
František Vejmělka +7 more
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Mass estimation of Santacrucian sloths from the Early Miocene Santa Cruz Formation of Patagonia, Argentina [PDF]
, 2014 Miocene deposits of the Santa Cruz Formation, Patagonia, comprise a diverse and excellently preserved vertebrate fauna, allowing detailed paleobiological and paleoecological studies based on three ecological parameters: body mass, diet, and substrate ...
Bargo, María Susana +3 more
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Who was the real sabertooth predator: Thylacosmilus or Thylacoleo?
The Anatomical Record, Volume 308, Issue 11, Page 2896-2912, November 2025.Abstract Sabertoothed mammalian predators, all now extinct, were almost exclusively feloid carnivorans (Eutheria, Placentalia): here a couple of extinct metatherian predators are considered in comparison with the placental sabertooths. Thylacosmilus (the “marsupial sabertooth”) and Thylacoleo (the “marsupial lion”) were both relatively large (puma ...
Christine M. Janis
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A generic impact-scoring system applied to alien mammals in Europe [PDF]
, 2009 We present a generic scoring system that compares the impact of alien species among members of large taxonomic groups. This scoring can be used to identify the most harmful alien species so that conservation measures to ameliorate their negative effects ...
Bacher, Sven +2 more
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, 1993 Colin P. Groves (1993): Order Diprotodontia. In: Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder (Eds): Mammal Species of the World (2nd Edition). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press: 45-62, ISBN: 1-56098-217-9, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo ...
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Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 8, November 2025.ABSTRACT Dental calculus metagenomics has emerged as a valuable tool for studying the oral microbiomes of humans and a few select mammals. With increasing interest in wild animal microbiomes, it is important to understand how widely this material can be used across the mammalian tree of life, refine the related protocols and understand the expected ...
Markella Moraitou +11 more
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Brief communication: Hair density and body mass in mammals and the evolution of human hairlessness [PDF]
, 2013 Humans are unusual among mammals in appearing hairless. Several hypotheses propose explanations for this phenotype, but few data are available to test these hypotheses. To elucidate the evolutionary history of human “hairlessness,” a comparative approach
Sandel, Aaron A.
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Phylogenetic relationships of the cuscuses (Diprotodontia : Phalangeridae) of island Southeast Asia and Melanesia based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene [PDF]
Australian Mammalogy, 2019 The species-level systematics of the marsupial family Phalangeridae, particularly Phalanger, are poorly understood, due partly to the family’s wide distribution across Australia, New Guinea, eastern Indonesia, and surrounding islands. In order to refine the species-level systematics of Phalangeridae, and improve our understanding of their evolution, we
Shimona Kealy +6 more
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Mycophagy in Primates of the Issa Valley, Tanzania
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.Mushroom consumption in Issa Valley primates varies by species and availability. Chimpanzees and red‐tailed monkeys use mushrooms as a fallback food, while baboons prefer them year‐round. Our study highlights the ecological and evolutionary significance of mycophagy in primates.
Theresa A. Schulze +7 more
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