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Mass Extinction Size Patterns

Mass Extinction Size Patterns is a scientific construct that identifies and characterizes the systematic relationship between organismal body size and extinction risk during mass extinction events, distinguishing itself from other macroevolutionary patterns by focusing specifically on differential survival and selectivity based on size across taxonomic groups and geological time intervals.

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Mass extinctions and sea-level changes

A. Hallam · Earth-Science Reviews · 1999 · 691 citations

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Are periodic mass extinctions driven by a distant solar companion?

D. P. Whitmire, A. A. Jackson · Nature · 1984 · 189 citations

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Body-size reduction in vertebrates following the end-Devonian mass extinction

Lauren Sallan, Andrew K. Galimberti · Science · 2015 · 113 citations

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A Model of Mass Extinction

M. E. J. Newman · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1997 · 113 citations · Full text

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Body Size Reductions in Nonmammalian Eutheriodont Therapsids (Synapsida) during the End-Permian Mass Extinction

Adam K. Huttenlocker · PLoS ONE · 2014 · 86 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. ME
    M. E. J. Newman

    University of Michigan, United States

    3 publications · 189 citations

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  2. SC
    Steve C. Wang

    Swarthmore College, United States

    2 publications · 98 citations

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  3. MM
    Marcelo M. Rivadeneira

    Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile

    2 publications · 78 citations

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  4. JL
    Jonathan L. Payne

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 98 citations

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  5. BR
    Brianna Rego

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 98 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    79 citations

  2. Santa Fe Institute

    Santa Fe, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    205 citations

  3. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    173 citations

  4. Swarthmore College

    Swarthmore, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    47 citations

  5. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

    Erlangen, Germany

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    129 citations

  6. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    213 citations

  7. Smithsonian Institution

    Washington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  8. University of Plymouth

    Plymouth, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    63 citations

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  1. Paleobiology

    5 publications · 222 citations

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  2. Nature

    3 publications · 280 citations

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  3. Science

    2 publications · 182 citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    2 publications · 99 citations

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  5. Journal of Theoretical Biology

    1 publications · 113 citations

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