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ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages 181-208Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100055
Keywords
population abundance; morphology; geographic range; functional turnover; biotic turnover; immigration
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Multiple episodes Of rapid and gradual climatic changes influenced the evolution and ecology of mammalian species and communities throughout the Cenozoic. Climatic change influenced the abundance, genetic diversity, morphology, and geographic ranges Of individual Species. Within communities these responses interacted to catalyze Immigration, speciation, and extrinction. Combined they affected long-term patterns of community stability, functional turnover, biotic turnover, and diversity. Although the relative influence of climate on particular evolutionary processes is oft debated, all understanding of processes at the root of biotic change yields important insights into the complexity of mammalian response. Ultimately, all responses trace to events experienced by populations. However, many such processes emerge as patterns above the species level, where shared life history traits and evolutionary history allow us to generalize about mammalian response to climatic change. These generalizations provide the greatest power to Understand and predict mammalian responses to current and future global change.
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