Francesco Carotenuto

TL;DR: The improved reliability of Ensemble modelling confirms the efficacy and suitability of the proposed approach for decision-makers in land management at local and regional scales.

TL;DR: It is contended that when population density is either low or fluctuating annually as a result of environmental unpredictability, it may be advantageous to individuals to behave more aggressively, to raise their rate of food intake, and allocate more energy into reproduction.

TL;DR: A strong phylogenetic effect was obtained in perissodactyls, suggesting that their mandible shape should be strongly inherited, and Digestive strategy is deemed to interplay with hypsodonty to produce different paths of adaptation to particular diets in ungulates.

TL;DR: An explicit and phylogenetically informed analysis of body size evolution in Cenozoic mammals shows that body size increases significantly in most inclusive clades, and significant pulses in origination of large-sized species are concentrated in periods of global cooling.

TL;DR: The modelled dispersal route suggests that H. erectus remained preferentially associated with low/middle latitude sites throughout its colonization history, pointing to the fact that predator avoidance may have conditioned its long-distance diffusion as it moved outside Africa.