Cenozoic environmental change in South America as indicated by mammalian body size distributions (cenograms)

By Darin A. Croft. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology

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In Ecology

1. M. Á. Olalla‐Tárraga
2. M. Rodríguez
3. F. Prevosti
4. A. Forasiepi
5. Darin A. Croft
6. B. Hawkins
7. S. Vizcaino
8. J. Blois

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Rodríguez
2. Darin A. Croft
3. F. Prevosti
4. J. J. Flynn
5. A. Wyss
6. A. Forasiepi
7. S. Vizcaino
8. J. Blois

In Paleontology

1. F. Prevosti
2. M. Rodríguez
3. A. Forasiepi
4. M. Á. Olalla‐Tárraga
5. Darin A. Croft
6. J. J. Flynn
7. A. Wyss
8. S. Vizcaino

Citations in the corpus

• Mammalian Response to Cenozoic Climatic Change (2009, background): “Croft 2001, MacFadden 2000; 54.”
• Megafauna extinction in South America: A new chronology for the Argentine Pampas (2015, background): “The study of body mass distributions by Fariña (1995) and Croft (2001) also suggests that savanna-grassland habitats developed under dry climates.”
• A NEW BASAL GLYPTODONTID AND OTHER XENARTHRA OF THE EARLY MIOCENE CHUCAL FAUNA, NORTHERN CHILE (2007, background): “The high diversity of mammals from the Santa Cruz Formation suggests that at least partly forested conditions were present at the time of deposition (Croft, 2001), although the peculiar taxonomic composition of the fauna and other non-analog aspects have hampered comparisons with modern faunas and…”
• Paleoecology of the large carnivore guild from the late Pleistocene of Argentina (2006, background): “…(including smaller ones, like mustelids and small foxes) recorded within this “local fauna” (eight) is clearly higher than the amount in South American Tertiary faunas, and falls within the range observed for living South Ameri− can faunas (Croft 2001; see also Van Valkenburgh 1999).”
• The Evolution of the Cenozoic Terrestrial Mammalian Predator Guild in South America: Competition or Replacement? (2011, background): “The diversity of sparassodonts does not seem to have a direct correlation with total annual rainfall or vegetation, but rather with the diversity of medium-sized mammals (Croft 2001).”
• Bergmann's rule and the geography of mammal body size in the Western Hemisphere (2008, background): “when the Great American Biotic Interchange occurred (Marshall et al., 1982; Croft, 2001).”
• Hypsodonty in Pleistocene ground sloths (2006, background): “This imposed ecological relation− ships that are not readily understood using the parameters that apply to the Old World (and the connected North Amer− ica) and require different explanatory models (e.g., Fariña 1996; Croft 2001).”