Beyond guilds: the promise of continuous traits for mammalian functional diversity

A trait-based framework for discerning drivers of species co-occurrence across heterogeneous landscapes

(2018) Brooks A. Kohli et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Trait-specific processes of convergence and conservatism shape ecomorphological evolution in ground-dwelling squirrels

(2018) Bryan S. McLean et al.   EVOLUTION

Trait selection and community weighting are key to understanding ecosystem responses to changing precipitation regimes

(2018) Robert J. Griffin-Nolan et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A perfect storm for mammalogy: declining sample availability in a period of rapid environmental degradation

(2018) Jason L Malaney et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

An association between differential expression and genetic divergence in the Patagonian olive mouse (Abrothrix olivacea )

(2018) Facundo M. Giorello et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A phylogenetic test of adaptation to deserts and aridity in skull and dental morphology across rodents

(2018) Bader H Alhajeri et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Species’ traits as predictors of range shifts under contemporary climate change: A review and meta-analysis

(2017) Sarah A. MacLean et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Morphology captures diet and locomotor types in rodents

(2017) Luis D. Verde Arregoitia et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Dietary adaptations in the teeth of murine rodents (Muridae): a test of biomechanical predictions

(2016) Stephanie A. Martin et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Eltonian shortfall due to the Grinnellian view: functional ecology between the mismatch of niche concepts

(2016) Bruno H. P. Rosado et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Morphological and dietary responses of chipmunks to a century of climate change

(2016) Rachel E. Walsh et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

2016 Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and education:

(2016) Robert S. Sikes et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Towards a uniform nomenclature for ground squirrels: the status of the Holarctic chipmunks

(2016) Bruce D. Patterson et al.   MAMMALIA

Spatial patterns of species richness and functional diversity in Costa Rican terrestrial mammals: implications for conservation

(2015) José F. González-Maya et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces

(2015) Eva Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Natural history collections-based research: progress, promise, and best practices

(2015) Bryan S. McLean et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Cranial morphological variation inPeromyscus maniculatusover nearly a century of environmental change in three areas of California

(2015) Michael W. Holmes et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Biodiversity and metacommunity structure of animals along altitudinal gradients in tropical montane forests

(2015) Michael R. Willig et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Energy flow and functional compensation in Great Basin small mammals under natural and anthropogenic environmental change

(2015) Rebecca C. Terry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Small mammal responses to environmental change: integrating past and present dynamics

(2015) Rebecca J. Rowe et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Moving beyond the guild concept: developing a practical functional trait framework for terrestrial beetles

(2014) NICHOLAS M. FOUNTAIN-JONES et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Choosing and using multiple traits in functional diversity research

(2014) JONATHAN S. LEFCHECK et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

A METHOD FOR ASSESSING PHYLOGENETIC LEAST SQUARES MODELS FOR SHAPE AND OTHER HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MULTIVARIATE DATA

(2014) Dean C. Adams   EVOLUTION

Body size and activity times mediate mammalian responses to climate change

(2014) Christy M. McCain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Multiple dimensions of bat biodiversity along an extensive tropical elevational gradient

(2014) Laura M. Cisneros et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Multilocus phylogeography and systematic revision of North American water shrews (genus:Sorex)

(2014) Andrew G. Hope et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Scaling functional diversity of small mammals in desert systems

(2014) D. Rodríguez et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Functional biogeography of oceanic islands and the scaling of functional diversity in the Azores

(2014) R. J. Whittaker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Generalized K Statistic for Estimating Phylogenetic Signal from Shape and Other High-Dimensional Multivariate Data

(2014) Dean C. Adams   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Brief communication: Hair density and body mass in mammals and the evolution of human hairlessness

(2013) Aaron A. Sandel   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Spatial Scaling of Functional Structure in Bird and Mammal Assemblages

(2013) Jonathan Belmaker et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Stronger Tests of Mechanisms Underlying Geographic Gradients of Biodiversity: Insights from the Dimensionality of Biodiversity

(2013) Richard D. Stevens et al.   PLoS One

Size increase in high elevation ground squirrels over the last century

(2012) Lindsey M. Eastman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Environmental change and declining resource availability for small-mammal communities in the Great Basin

(2011) Rebecca J. Rowe et al.   ECOLOGY

Predicting small-mammal responses to climatic warming: autecology, geographic range, and the Holocene fossil record

(2011) REBECCA C. TERRY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic structure illuminates the mechanistic role of environmental heterogeneity in community organization

(2011) Richard D. Stevens et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity

(2011) K. Safi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

(2011) L. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

Shrews of the Ruby Mountains, Northeastern Nevada

(2011) Eric A. Rickart et al.   SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST

Measuring biodiversity to explain community assembly: a unified approach

(2010) S. Pavoine et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Cranial shape varies along an elevation gradient in Gambel's white-footed mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus gambelii) in the Grinnell Resurvey Yosemite transect

(2010) T.M. Grieco et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis

(2009) R. P. FRECKLETON   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Size, shape, and the thermal niche of endotherms

(2009) W. P. Porter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cranial morphology and dietary habits of rodents

(2009) JOSHUA X. SAMUELS   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Zero Sum, the Niche, and Metacommunities: Long‐Term Dynamics of Community Assembly

(2008) S. K. Morgan Ernest et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

(2008) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS