Felisa A. Smith

TL;DR: This work examines several well-known ecogeographical rules, especially those pertaining to body size in contemporary, historical and fossil taxa, and reviews the evidence showing that rules of geographical variation in response to variation in the local environment can also apply to morphological changes through time in Response to climate change.

TL;DR: The purpose of this data set was to compile body mass information for all mammals on Earth so that it could investigate the patterns of body mass seen across geographic and taxonomic space and evolutionary time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the available data and models on energy and material flows through the world's 25 largest cities are reviewed, and the aggregate, fuel, food, water, and air cycles are all examined.

TL;DR: Progress is reviewed in understanding of how megafauna affect ecosystem physical and trophic structure, species composition, biogeochemistry, and climate, drawing on special features of PNAS and Ecography that have been published as a result of an international workshop held in Oxford in 2014.

TL;DR: Pleistocene rewilding would deliberately promote large, long‐lived species over pest and weed assemblages, facilitate the persistence and ecological effectiveness of megafauna on a global scale, and broaden the underlying premise of conservation from managing extinction to encompass restoring ecological and evolutionary processes.