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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
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26 news outlets
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8 blogs
twitter
79 X users
facebook
6 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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186 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
Title
Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians
Published in
Nature Communications, September 2015
DOI 10.1038/ncomms9438
Pubmed ID
Authors

Philip D. Mannion, Roger B. J. Benson, Matthew T. Carrano, Jonathan P. Tennant, Jack Judd, Richard J. Butler

Abstract

The fossil record of crocodylians and their relatives (pseudosuchians) reveals a rich evolutionary history, prompting questions about causes of long-term decline to their present-day low biodiversity. We analyse climatic drivers of subsampled pseudosuchian biodiversity over their 250 million year history, using a comprehensive new data set. Biodiversity and environmental changes correlate strongly, with long-term decline of terrestrial taxa driven by decreasing temperatures in northern temperate regions, and biodiversity decreases at lower latitudes matching patterns of increasing aridification. However, there is no relationship between temperature and biodiversity for marine pseudosuchians, with sea-level change and post-extinction opportunism demonstrated to be more important drivers. A 'modern-type' latitudinal biodiversity gradient might have existed throughout pseudosuchian history, and range expansion towards the poles occurred during warm intervals. Although their fossil record suggests that current global warming might promote long-term increases in crocodylian biodiversity and geographic range, the 'balancing forces' of anthropogenic environmental degradation complicate future predictions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
United States 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 180 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 44 24%
Student > Bachelor 36 19%
Researcher 23 12%
Student > Master 19 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 4%
Other 27 15%
Unknown 29 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 66 35%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 56 30%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 5%
Environmental Science 10 5%
Linguistics 1 <1%
Other 8 4%
Unknown 35 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 281. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2023.
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#125,673
of 25,383,344 outputs
Outputs from Nature Communications
#1,788
of 56,533 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,514
of 284,202 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Communications
#24
of 753 outputs
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