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Bird extinctions shift bill–flower trait matching in Hawaiian lobelioids

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Species extinctions can reorganize ecological interactions by altering the distribution of functional traits within communities. These traits structure how species interact, influencing whether encounters result in mutualistic or antagonistic outcomes.
Samuel B. Case, Molly E. Hagemann, Donald R. Drake, Katherine Postelli, Richard J. Pender, Pryce W. Millikin, Alejandro Rico‐Guevara   +6 more
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PAST GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: A HIGH RESOLUTION EVIDENCE FROM SW SIBERIA

Литосфера, 2019
The southern Siberian loess, being a continuation of the Eurasian loess-belt, has provided one of the most complete terrestrial proxy records on the global past climate development.

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Body Size Regulates Niche Overlap Asymmetry in the Subtropical Andes Rain Shadow: Isotopic Paleoecology of Oligocene South American Ungulates

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study provides the first isotopic analysis of Oligocene mammals from Quebrada Fiera, Mendoza, Argentina, filling a major gap in South American paleontology. It reveals a latitudinal gradient in aridity due to the Andean rain shadow and highlights the role of (semi)permanent water bodies in sustaining diverse herbivore communities. Additionally, it
Dánae Sanz‐Pérez, Santiago Hernández Del Pino, Esperanza Cerdeño, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Laura Domingo   +4 more
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The osteoderm microstructure in doswelliids and proterochampsids and its implications for palaeobiology of stem archosaurs [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017
Osteoderms are common in most archosauriform lineages, including basal forms, such as doswelliids and proterochampsids. In this survey, osteoderms of the doswelliids Doswellia kaltenbachi and Vancleavea campi, and proterochampsid Chanaresuchus bonapartei
Denis A. Ponce, Ignacio A. Cerda, Julia B. Desojo, Sterling J. Nesbitt   +3 more
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Palaeoenvironmental and climatic changes from the lateglacial of the Saalian to the Late Weichselian in central Poland: a multiproxy study from Józefów

Boreas, EarlyView.
Józefów site is a case study which provides a detailed record of environmental and climate changes and confirms the main traces of the landscape morphogenesis of the Late Pleistocene established in central‐eastern Europe. This study presents a multiproxy reconstruction of palaeoenvironment under variable climatic conditions from the retreat of the ...
Aleksandra Majecka, Jacek Forysiak, Ryszard Borówka, Andreas Börner, Łukasz Bujak, Leszek Marks, Radosław Mieszkowski, Piotr Moska, Daniel Okupny, Małgorzata Pisarska‐Jamroży, Renata Stachowicz‐Rybka, Krzysztof Stachowicz   +11 more
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AlpIce‐1: a database of geochronological and geomorphological constraints on Alps‐wide palaeoglacier fluctuations between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene

Boreas, EarlyView.
The AlpIce‐1 database is the first compilation of published geomorphological and geochronological markers constraining build‐up, culmination and decay of glaciers from the Last Glacial Maximum through the Holocene across the entire European Alps. AlpIce‐1 integrates more than 4200 surface‐exposure and radiocarbon ages, homogenized, quality controlled ...
Sarah Kamleitner, Susan Ivy‐Ochs, Tancrède P. M. Leger, Andreas Henz, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Andreas Vieli, Guillaume Jouvet   +6 more
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What Do Fossil charophytes Whisper to Us? Palaeoecological and Palaeoenvironmental Reports from Pleistocene Continental Deposits of Umbria (Central Italy)

Geosciences
The Early Pleistocene continental deposits of the Tiberino Basin (Central Italy) host exceptionally preserved fossil charophyte assemblages that provide critical insights into palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic dynamics during a key phase of the ...
Angela Baldanza, Paola Angelini, Anna Maria De Santis, Isabella Nalli, Roberto Bizzarri   +4 more
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Endocranial anatomy of the earliest Cretaceous European neosuchian crocodyliform Pholidosaurus purbeckensis provides new evidence for the ecological evolution of Pholidosauridae

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
We present new insights into the internal cranial anatomy of the neosuchian crocodyliform Pholidosaurus purbeckensis, based on CT‐scan data of material from the lowermost Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group, southern UK. From the study of the endocast, we obtained new information on the phylogeny and the ecological evolution of the Family ...
Leonardo Barbini, Paul M. J. Burke, Ilaria Caddeo, Marco Romano, Philip D. Mannion   +4 more
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A catalogue of Danian gastropods from the Baunekule facies, Faxe Formation, Denmark [PDF]

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin, 2014
This catalogue of 194 gastropod taxa is based on the collection of Danian gastropods from the Baunekule facies, Faxe Formation in eastern Denmark. The gastropod fauna is extremely rich and well preserved. Most of the gastropods (106 species) are referred
Lauridsen, B.W., Schnetler, K.I.
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Postcranial anatomy of the Miocene hippopotamoids of Toros‐Menalla, Chad

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
We establish a framework for the identification of postcranial remains in hippopotamoids by describing and comparing for the first time two late Miocene hippopotamoids from Toros‐Menalla, Chad (Hexaprotodon garyam, an early hippopotamid, and Libycosaurus bahri, the last African anthracothere) with the common hippopotamus.
Lorenzo Scribano, Fabrice Lihoreau, Alexandra Houssaye, Clarisse Nekoulnang Djetounako, Jean‐Renaud Boisserie   +4 more
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