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History matters: ecometrics and integrative climate change biology.
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- The past as a lens for biodiversity conservation on a dynamically changing planet.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The utility of body size as a functional trait to link the past and present in a diverse reptile clade.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammal communities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Eco-ISEA3H, a machine learning ready spatial database for ecometric and species distribution modeling.Scientific data · 2023Article
- A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data.iScience · 2022Article
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- Conservation evidence from climate-related stressors in the deep-time marine fossil record.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Sixty-one thousand recent planktonic foraminifera from the Atlantic Ocean.Scientific data · 2018Article
- Herbivore teeth predict climatic limits in Kenyan ecosystems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Towards a morphological metric of assemblage dynamics in the fossil record: a test case using planktonic foraminifera.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Asymmetric ecological conditions favor Red-Queen type of continued evolution over stasis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Climate warming and Bergmann's rule through time: is there any evidence?Evolutionary applications · 2014Article
- Exploring the mammalian sensory space: co-operations and trade-offs among senses.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2013Article
- Localized versus generalist phenotypes in a broadly distributed tropical mammal: how is intraspecific variation distributed across disparate environments?BMC evolutionary biology · 2013Article
- Dental functional traits of mammals resolve productivity in terrestrial ecosystems past and present.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2012Article
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Abstract
Climate change research is increasingly focusing on the dynamics among species, ecosystems and climates. Better data about the historical behaviours of these dynamics are urgently needed. Such data are already available from ecology, archaeology, palaeontology and geology, but their integration into climate change research is hampered by differences in their temporal and geographical scales. One productive way to unite data across scales is the study of functional morphological traits, which can form a common denominator for studying interactions between species and climate across taxa, across ecosystems, across space and through time-an approach we call 'ecometrics'. The sampling methods that have become established in palaeontology to standardize over different scales can be synthesized with tools from community ecology and climate change biology to improve our understanding of the dynamics among species, ecosystems, climates and earth systems over time. Developing these approaches into an integrative climate change biology will help enrich our understanding of the changes our modern world is undergoing.
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