Dental functional traits of mammals resolve productivity in terrestrial ecosystems past and present

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1739, 2012, Pages 2793-2799

  Liu, Liping ^a,b   Puolamäki, Kai ^c   Eronen, Jussi T ^a,d   Ataabadi, Majid M ^a,b   Hernesniemi, Elina ^a   Fortelius, Mikael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dental traits; Fossil mammals; Herbivorous mammals; Neogene; Net primary production; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DENTITION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HERBIVORE; MAMMAL; NEOGENE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84862117497     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0211     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Damuth, J. & Janis, C. 2011 On the relationship between hypsodonty and feeding ecology in ungulate mammals, and its utility in palaeoecology. Biol. Rev. 86, 733-758. (doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00176.x)
2. Fortelius, M., Eronen, J., Jernvall, J., Liu, L., Pushkina, D., Rinne, J., Tesakov, A. & Vislobokova, I. 2002 Fossil mammals resolve regional patterns of Eurasian climate change over 20 million years. Evol. Ecol. Res. 4, 1005-1016.
3. Eronen, J. T., Puolamäki, K., Liu, L., Lintulaakso, K., Damuth, J., Janis, C. & Fortelius, M. 2010 Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals. I. Estimates from present-day communities. Evol. Ecol. Res. 12, 217-233.
4. Janis, C. & Fortelius, M. 1988 On the means whereby mammals achieve increased functional durability of their dentitions, with special reference to limiting factors. Biol. Rev. Camb. 63, 197-230.
5. Fortelius, M. 2003 Evolution of dental capability in Western Eurasian large mammal plant eaters 22-2 million years ago: a case for environmental forcing mediated by biotic processes. In The New Panorama of Animal Evolution. Proc. of the XVIIIth Int. Congress of Zoology (eds A. Legakis et al.), pp. 61-67. Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft.
6. Nemani, R. R., Keeling, C. D., Hashimoto, H., Jolly, W. M., Piper, S. C., Tucker, C. J., Myneni, R. B. & Running, S. W. 2003 Climate-driven increases in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999. Science 300, 1560-1563. (doi:10.1126/science.1082750)
7. Fortelius, M. 1985 Ungulate cheek teeth: developmental, functional and evolutionary interrelations. Acta Zool. Fenn. 180, 1-76.
8. Kaiser, T. M., Mü ller, D. W. H., Fortelius, M., Schultz, E., Codron, D. & Clauss, M. In press. Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear. Mammal Rev. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907. 2011.00203.x)
9. Polly, P. D. et al. 2011 History matters: integrative climate change biology. Proc. R. Soc. B 278, 1131-1140. (doi:10. 1098/rspb.2010.2233)
10. Jernvall, J., Hunter, J. P. & Fortelius, M. 1996 Molar tooth diversity, disparity, and ecology in Cenozoic ungulate radiations. Science 274, 1489-1492. (doi:10.1126/science.274.5292.1489)
11. Evans, A. R., Wilson, G. P., Fortelius, M. & Jernvall, J. 2006 High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents. Nature 445, 78-81. (doi:10.1038/nature05433)
12. Churkina, G. & Running, S. W. 1998 Contrasting climatic controls on the estimated productivity of global terrestrial biomes. Ecosystems 1, 206-215. (doi:10.1007/s100219900016)
13. Gholz, H. 1982 Environmental limits on aboveground net primary production, leaf area, and biomass in vegetation zones of the pacific northwest. Ecology 63, 469-481. (doi:10.2307/1938964)
14. Huxman, T. E. et al. 2004 Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency. Nature 429, 651-654. (doi:10.1038/nature02561)
15. Jernvall, J., Hunter, J. P. & Fortelius, M. 2000 Trends in the evolution of molar crown types in ungulate mammals: evidence from the Northern Hemisphere. In Development, function and evolution of teeth (eds M. E. Teaford, M. M. Smith & M. Ferguson), pp. 269-281. London, UK: Cambridge University Press.
16. Eronena, J. T., Ataabadia, M. M., Micheelsb, A., Karmea, A., Bernor, R. L. & Forteliusa, M. 2009 Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 11 867-11 871. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0902598106)
17. Mirzaie Ataabadi, M., Liu, L., Eronen, J. T., Bernor, R. L. & Fortelius, M. In press. Asian Neogene mammal Biostratigraphy and chronology (eds X. M. Wang, M. Fortelius & L. Flynn). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
18. Hijmans, R. J., Cameron, S. E., Parra, J. L., Jones, P. G. & Jarvis, A. 2005 Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. Int. J. Climatol. 25, 1965-1978. (doi:10.1002/30c.1276)
19. Olson, D. M. 2001 Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth. BioScience 51, 933-938. (doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:TEO TWA]2. 0.CO;2)
20. Lieth, H. 1975 Modelling the primary productivity of the world. In Primary productivity of the biosphere (eds H. Lieth & R. H. Whittaker), pp. 237-263. New York, NY: Springer.
21. Zaks, D. P., Ramankutty, N., Barford, C. C. & Foley, J. A. 2007 From Miami to Madison: investigating the relationship between climate and terrestrial net primary production. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 21, 1-13. (doi:10.1029/2006GB002705)
22. Hawkins, B. A., Diniz-Filho, J. A. F, Bini, K. M., De Marco, P. & Blackburn, T. M. 2007 Red herrings revisited: spatial autocorrelation and parameter estimation in geographical ecology. Ecography 30, 375-385.
23. Fortelius, M. (coordinator) 2011 Neogene of the old world database of FossilMammals (NOW). Helsinki, Finland: University of Helsinki. See http://www.helsinki.fi/science/now/.
24. Lieth, H. 1975 Primary production of the major vegetation units of the world. In Primary productivity of the biosphere (eds H. Lieth & R. H. Whittaker), pp. 203-215. New York, NY: Springer.
25. Clark, D. A., Brown, S., Kicklighter, D. W., Chambers, J. Q., Thomlinson, J. R., Ni, J. & Holland, E. A. 2001 Net primary production in tropical forests: an evaluation and synthesis of existing field data. Ecol. Appl. 11, 371-384. (doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[0371:NPP ITF]2.0.CO;2)
26. Scurlock, J. M. & Olson, R. J. 2002 Terrestrial net primary productivity: a brief history and a new worldwide database. Environ. Rev. 10, 91-109. (doi:10.1139/A02-002)
27. Zheng, D. L., Prince, S. D. & Wright, R. 2003 Terrestrial net primary production estimates for 0.5 degree grid cells from field observations: a contribution to global biogeochemical modelling. Global Change Biol. 9, 46-64. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00534.x)
28. Scurlock, J. M. & Hall, D. O. 1998 The global carbon sink: a grassland perspective. Global Change Biol. 4, 229-233. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2486.1998.00151.x)
29. Flower, B. P. & Kennett, J. P. 1994 The middle Miocene climatic transition: East Antarctic ice sheet development, deep ocean circulation and global carbon cycling. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 108, 537-555. (doi:10. 1016/0031-0182(94)90251-8)
30. Kovar-Eder, J., Kvacek, Z., Zastawniak, E., Givulescu, R., Hably, L., Mihajlovic, D., Teslenko, J. & Walther, H. 1996 Floristic trends in the vegetation of the paratethys surrounding areas during Neogene time. In The evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene mammal faunas (eds R. L. Bernor, V. Fahlbusch & H. W. Mittmann), pp. 395-413. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
31. Solounias, N., Rivals, F. & Semprebon, G. M. 2010 Dietary interpretation and paleoecology of herbivores from Pikermi and Samos (late Miocene of Greece). Paleobiology 36, 113-136. (doi:10.1666/0094-8373-36.1.113)
32. Kay, R. F. & Hiiemae, K. M. 1974 Jaw movement and tooth use in recent and fossil primates. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 40, 227-256. (doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330400210)
33. Onoda, Y. et al. 2011 Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties. Ecol. Lett. 14, 201-213. (doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01582.x)