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ArticleJournal of mammalogy2024

Accounting for age: uncovering the nuanced drivers of mammal body-size responses to climate change.

Miranda K Theriot, Link E Olson, Hayley C Lanier

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Article in Journal of mammalogy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Morphological Variation in the Striped Field Mouse Across Three Countries.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Miranda K TheriotSam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1155-5496
Link E OlsonUniversity of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2481-5701
Hayley C LanierSam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9337-4017

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shifts in mean body size coinciding with environmental change are well documented across animal species and populations, serving as a widespread and complex indicator of climate-change response. In mammal research, identifying and disentangling the potential drivers of these trends (e.g., thermoregulation, resource availability) is hindered by treating adult size as fixed, ignoring morphological changes that occur throughout life in many species. However, observed population-level size trends may reflect underlying shifts in age structure (i.e., change in the proportion of older, potentially larger individuals in the population). Here, we assessed the role of age structure by explicitly evaluating age as a contributor to temporal variation in skull size (a proxy for body size) in 2 carnivorans, Canadian Lynx (

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age structurebody sizeclimate-change responseLynx canadensisMartes americana

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PMID39434844
PMCPMC11491926

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