Major body size change in an extinct tropical island mammal associated with glacial-interglacial environmental shifts.

Samuel T Turvey, Angela L Lamb, Phil Rye, Abel Vale Nieves, Joanne H Cooper, Peter van Calsteren

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Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Samuel T TurveyInstitute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK.

Angela L LambNational Environmental Isotope Facility, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK.

Phil RyeBird Group, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Akeman Street, Tring, Hertfordshire HP23 6AP, UK.

Abel Vale NievesCiudadanos del Karso, 267 Sierra Morena PMB 230, San Juan 00926, Puerto Rico.

Joanne H CooperBird Group, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Akeman Street, Tring, Hertfordshire HP23 6AP, UK.

Peter van CalsterenDepartment of Environment, Earth & Ecosystems, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK.

Funding

NCIRD CDC HHS R43 IP001108NCIRD CDC HHS U01 IP001106

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patterns of late Quaternary body size change in small-bodied vertebrates remain poorly understood. The now-extinct Puerto Rican island-shrew

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Earth sciencesGlaciation in earth historyPaleobiologyPaleontology

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PMID41358158

DOI10.1016/j.isci.2025.113968

PMCPMC12677072

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