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The last important –and possibly the most spectacular– turnover in South American mammal history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamammal species and about 80% of large mammal specie...

Materias / palabras clave: Fire extinction; Extincion de incendios

Materias / palabras clave: Extinction (Biology); Biología

Materias / palabras clave: Forest fires; Fire extinction; Incendio forestal

Materias / palabras clave: Fire extinction; Water supply; Incendios; Extinción

Materias / palabras clave: Forest fires; Fire extinction; Incendio forestal

Materias / palabras clave: Animales; Reintroducción; Biodiversidad; Animales en vŁas de extinciØn; RecuperaciØn; EspaÞa; Extinction (Biology); Extinct animals; Biodiversity

The path to mammalness is well documented in the fossil record of Therapsida. Cynodontia is a group that includes living mammals and a series of stem fossil taxa that are individualized under the paraphyletic name of non...

A noticeable aspect of metatherian evolution in South America is the influence of climatic oscillations in their macroevolutionary patterns, involving major radiations during warming phases, and extinctions and functiona...

The inherent vulnerability of elasmobranchs (i.e., sharks, skates, rays) to extinction stems from their conservative life history traits, particularly those related to reproduction. Traditional studies on elasmobranch re...

Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance is here applied to the problem ...

Biogeography was stuck in a "natural history phase" dominated by the collection of data, the young Princeton biologists Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson argued in 1967. In this book, the authors developed a gener...