@inbook{116d179f27bd4604ab5de7ef8916edd7,
title = "Environmental Change and Body Size Evolution in Neogene Large Mammals",
abstract = "Body size is an overarching trait of taxa, related to virtually all aspects of their life history and their relationships with the environment. In this chapter, we use the NOW data to summarize body size evolution of terrestrial mammals during the Neogene. We first present a new method for estimating body size of Proboscidea[aut]Proboscidea (proboscideans) and show consistent trends of increasing sizes through time across Eurasia and Africa with the resulting new dataset. Both continental trends tracked global warmingGlobal warming and cooling events and suggested selection of larger sizes driven by the effects of harshening terrestrial environments. We then use a combined dataset of five mammalian orders to show that large herbivorousHerbivore/herbivorous mammals increased in body sizeBody mass/sizeincrease through time in North America but maintained earlier sizes in Europe. This continental difference reflects the more stable Neogene biomeBiome distribution in Europe and highlights the importance of biogeographic approaches for understanding body size evolution.",
keywords = "1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology",
author = "Shan Huang and Alison Eyres and Fritz, {Susanne A.} and Eronen, {Jussi T.} and Juha Saarinen",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-17490-2",
series = "Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "79--93",
editor = "Isaac Casanovas-Vilar and {van den Hoek Ostende}, {Lars W.} and Janis, {Christine M.} and Juha Saarinen",
booktitle = "Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems",
address = "United States",
}