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| Title |
A universal scaling relationship between body mass and proximal limb bone dimensions in quadrupedal terrestrial tetrapods
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| Published in |
BMC Biology, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7007-10-60 |
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| Authors |
Nicolás E Campione, David C Evans |
| Abstract |
Body size is intimately related to the physiology and ecology of an organism. Therefore, accurate and consistent body mass estimates are essential for inferring numerous aspects of paleobiology in extinct taxa, and investigating large-scale evolutionary and ecological patterns in the history of life. Scaling relationships between skeletal measurements and body mass in birds and mammals are commonly used to predict body mass in extinct members of these crown clades, but the applicability of these models for predicting mass in more distantly related stem taxa, such as non-avian dinosaurs and non-mammalian synapsids, has been criticized on biomechanical grounds. Here we test the major criticisms of scaling methods for estimating body mass using an extensive dataset of mammalian and non-avian reptilian species derived from individual skeletons with live weights. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 36 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 7 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 19% |
| United States | 6 | 17% |
| Mexico | 2 | 6% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 10 | 28% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 53% |
| Scientists | 14 | 39% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 6% |
| Unknown | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 294 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 279 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 66 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 51 | 17% |
| Researcher | 42 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 30 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 38 | 13% |
| Unknown | 52 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 113 | 38% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 68 | 23% |
| Environmental Science | 12 | 4% |
| Engineering | 8 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 25 | 9% |
| Unknown | 61 | 21% |