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Biotic responses of canids to the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction by Pardi, Melissa I, Smith, Felisa A

“…Trophic downgrading is a major concern for conservation scientists. The largest consumers in many ecosystems have become either rare or extirpated, leading to…”
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Exploring the influence of ancient and historic megaherbivore extirpations on the global methane budget by Smith, Felisa A., Hammond, John I., Balk, Meghan A., Elliott, Scott M., Lyons, S. Kathleen, Pardi, Melissa I., Tomé, Catalina P., Wagner, Peter J., Westover, Marie L.

“…Globally, large-bodied wild mammals are in peril. Because “megamammals” have a disproportionate influence on vegetation, trophic interactions, and ecosystem…”
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Dietary plasticity of North American herbivores: a synthesis of stable isotope data over the past 7 million years by Pardi, Melissa I, DeSantis, Larisa R G

“…Palaeoecological interpretations are based on our understanding of dietary and habitat preferences of fossil taxa. While morphology provides approximations of…”
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Global long-term stability of individual dietary specialization in herbivorous mammals by DeSantis, Larisa R G, Pardi, Melissa I, Du, Andrew, Greshko, Michael A, Yann, Lindsey T, Hulbert, Jr, Richard C, Louys, Julien

“…Dietary variation within species has important ecological and evolutionary implications. While theoreticians have debated the consequences of trait variance…”
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Interpreting spatially explicit variation in dietary proxies through species distribution modeling reveals foraging preferences of mammoth (Mammuthus) and American mastodon (Mammut americanum) by Pardi, Melissa I., DeSantis, Larisa R. G.

“…IntroductionThe end Pleistocene was a time of considerable ecological upheaval. Recent work has explored the megafauna extinction’s role in altering ecosystem…”
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Testing climate tracking of montane rodent distributions over the past century within the Great Basin ecoregion by Pardi, Melissa I., Terry, Rebecca C., Rickart, Eric A., Rowe, Rebecca J.

“…Geographic ranges of many taxa have shifted poleward or up-slope under warming. Little is known, however, about the consistency of these dynamics among…”
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After the mammoths: The ecological legacy of late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions by Smith, Felisa A., Elliott Smith, Emma A., Hedberg, Carson P., Lyons, S. Kathleen, Pardi, Melissa I., Tomé, Catalina P.

“…The significant extinctions in Earth history have largely been unpredictable in terms of what species perish and what traits make species susceptible. The…”
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Changes in small mammal communities throughout the late Quaternary across eastern environmental gradients of the United States by Pardi, Melissa I., Graham, Russell W.

“…Distributions of biotas are predictably structured along environmental gradients. Vegetation is primarily restricted by precipitation and temperature, whereas,…”
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