Global climate change and North American mammalian evolution

By J. Alroy, P. Koch, J. Zachos. Paleobiology, 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology

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In Atmospheric Science

1. A. Barnosky
2. M. Foote
3. J. Blois
4. James H. Brown
5. M. Carrasco
6. Elizabeth A. Hadly
7. F. Smith
8. J. Alroy

In Ecology

1. A. Barnosky
2. J. Blois
3. J. Alroy
4. Elizabeth A. Hadly
5. M. Carrasco
6. J. Buzan
7. M. Foote
8. James H. Brown

In Paleontology

1. A. Barnosky
2. J. Alroy
3. M. Carrasco
4. Elizabeth A. Hadly
5. J. Blois
6. M. Foote
7. F. Smith
8. James H. Brown

Citations in the corpus

• Mammalian Response to Cenozoic Climatic Change (2009, background): “Climates changed at various rates (Figure 4) across the Cenozoic, but overwhelming evidence that climate paces biotic turnover is lacking across this time period (Alroy et al. 2000).”
• Mammalian responses to climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Polecat Bench record in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (2003, background): “Prothero (1999) excluded the Paleocene-Eocene transition from his study because it involved immigrant genera, while Alroy et al. (2000) included it and found evidence associating climate and biotic change in this brief transition.”
• Origination and extinction components of taxonomic diversity: general problems (2000, background): “Moreover, if p 5 q, if pDt and qDt are relatively low, and if singletons are ignored, Alroy’s metric and Van Valen’s metric are approximately equal to p̂ and q̂ (see Appendix, section 2, and Alroy et al. 2000).”
• Moist Heat Stress on a Hotter Earth (2020, background): “The major taxa heavier than 1 kg—carnivora, artiodactyls, and perissodactyls—were all about a factor of 10 less massive during the early Eocene than subsequent periods (Alroy et al. 2000, Smith et al. 2004).”
• Are Sepkoski’s evolutionary faunas dynamically coherent? (2004, background): “Interestingly, the group’s decline around the Mio-Pliocene boundary seems to be stochastic, perhaps a side-effect of generally high extinction rates for large mammals during this interval (Webb, 1983; Alroy, 1999b; Alroy et al., 2000).”
• The Miocene Climatic Optimum: evidence from ectothermic vertebrates of Central Europe (2003, background): “E.g. Alroy et al. (2000) claim that the global climate change had only unpredictable e¡ects on the Cenozoic mammalian evolution in western North America.”
• The role of molecular genetics in sculpting the future of integrative biogeography (2008, background): “3 Phylochronology: integration of ancient genetic data with modern genetic variation Detailed evidence of species evolutionary responses to particular environmental events is lacking and controversial (Vrba, 1993; Alroy et al., 2000; Barnosky, 2001), yet important for reconstructing the biogeographi”
• An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress (2010, background): “While data from the tropics are sparse, the major mammalian taxa heavier than 1 kg—carnivora, artiodactyls, and perissodactyls—were indeed about a factor of 10 less massive on average during the early Eocene than during cooler, later periods (29, 30), part of a growth trend known as “Cope’s law” (31”
• Effects of Quaternary Climatic Change on Speciation in Mammals (2005, methodology): “The most comprehensive comparison of speciation rates of mammals through the Cenozoic was provided by Alroy and colleagues (Alroy, 2000; Alroy et al., 2000), who worked around the problem of comparing unequal interval lengths by sorting taxa into bins of 1 million years through a method called…”
• Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents (2004, background): “Moreover, the evolutionary dynamics of mammals did not correlate well with other climate changes over the Cenozoic (Alroy et al., 2000).”
• Effects of Oligo-Miocene global climate changes on mammalian species richness in the northwestern quarter of the USA (2002, methodology): “Also in contrast to the results presented here, the curves of Alroy (2000) and Alroy et al. (2000) suggest highest richness at about 26 million years ago.”
• New methods for quantifying macroevolutionary patterns and processes (2000, background): “7A,B; supplementary material, Table 2), Alroy et al. (2000) analyze three combined versions of these two statistics that represent different aspects of turnover: net diversification, here based on the difference of the instantaneous rates; diversification volatility, which is the absolute value of…”
• Inferring temporal patterns of preservation, origination, and extinction from taxonomic survivorship analysis (2001, methodology): “…of the record has varied over time (Raymond and Metz 1995; Alroy 1996, 1998; Miller and Foote 1996; Markwick 1998; Johnson and McCormick 1999; Alroy et al. 2000; Peters and Foote 2001; Smith 2001), or in which we can use principles of stratigraphy to model this variation (Holland 1995, 2000;…”