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Giant rodents from the Neotropics: diversity and dental variation of late Miocene neoepiblemid remains from Urumaco, Venezuela

Carrillo, Juan ; Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo

In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2015, vol. 89, no. 4, p. 1057-1071

Reconstructing International Law starting from Regional Organizations = Reconstruire le droit international à partir des organisations régionales

Besson, Samantha

In: Revue européenne du droit (RED), 2021, no. 2, p. 64-68

The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity

Andermann, Tobias ; Faurby, Søren ; Turvey, Samuel T. ; Antonelli, Alexandre ; Silvestro, Daniele

In: Science Advances, 2020, vol. 6, no. 36, p. eabb2313

To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have affected biodiversity in the past. However, the extent of human involvement in species extinctions from the Late Pleistocene onward remains contentious. Here, we apply Bayesian models to the fossil record to estimate how mammalian extinction rates have changed over the past 126,000 years, inferring...

The importance of input data quality and quantity in climate field reconstructions – results from the assimilation of various tree-ring collections

Franke, Jörg ; Valler, Veronika ; Brönnimann, Stefan ; Neukom, Raphael ; Jaume-Santero, Fernando

In: Climate of the Past, 2020, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 1061–1074

Differences between paleoclimatic reconstructions are caused by two factors: the method and the input data. While many studies compare methods, we will focus in this study on the consequences of the input data choice in a state-of-the-art Kalman- filter paleoclimate data assimilation approach. We evaluate reconstruction quality in the 20th century based on three collections of tree-ring...

Comparative analysis of the shape and size of the middle ear cavity of turtles reveals no correlation with habitat ecology

Foth, Christian ; Evers, Serjoscha W. ; Joyce, Walter G. ; Volpato, Virginie S. ; Benson, Roger B. J.

In: Journal of Anatomy, 2019, no. 0, p. -

The middle ear of turtles differs from other reptiles in being separated into two distinct compartments. Several ideas have been proposed as to why the middle ear is compartmentalized in turtles, most suggesting a relationship with underwater hearing. Extant turtle species span fully marine to strictly terrestrial habitats, and ecomorphological hypotheses of turtle hearing predict that this...

Endospore-forming bacteria as new proxies to assess impact of eutrophication in Lake Geneva (Switzerland-France)

Wunderlin, Tina ; Corella, Juan ; Junier, Thomas ; Bueche, Matthieu ; Loizeau, Jean-Luc ; Girardclos, Stéphanie ; Junier, Pilar

In: Aquatic Sciences, 2014, vol. 76, p. 103-116

3D profile reconstruction

Briguet, Daniel ; Kandaswamy, Djano (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie, 2018.

The objective of the project is to develop a system to reconstruct in 3D the profile of a moving object.

Progressively excluding mammals of different body size affects community and trait structure of ground beetles

Wang, Xiaowei ; Steiner, Magdalena ; Schütz, Martin ; Vandegehuchte, Martijn L. ; Risch, Anita C.

In: Oikos, 2018, vol. 127, no. 10, p. 1515–1525

Mammalian grazing induces changes in vegetation properties in grasslands, which can affect a wide variety of other animals including many arthropods. However, the impacts may depend on the type and body size of these mammals. Furthermore, how mammals influence functional trait syndromes of arthropod communities is not well known. We progressively excluded large (e.g. red deer, chamois),...

Testate amoebae analysis in ecological and paleoecological studies of wetlands: past, present and future

Mitchell, Edward ; Charman, Daniel ; Warner, Barry

In: Biodiversity and Conservation, 2008, vol. 17, no. 9, p. 2115-2137

Reconstructing Anthropogenic Disturbance Regimes in Forest Ecosystems: A Case Study from the Swiss Rhone Valley

Gimmi, Urs ; Bürgi, Matthias ; Stuber, Martin

In: Ecosystems, 2008, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 113-124