List of works by Mikael Fortelius

A New Tooth Wear–Based Dietary Analysis Method for Proboscidea (Mammalia)

A new magnetostratigraphic framework for late Neogene Hipparion Red Clay in the eastern Loess Plateau of China

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Adaptive dynamics on an environmental gradient that changes over a geological time-scale

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Adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of dinosaurs

scientific article published on 14 March 2012

Age and stratigraphic context of Pliopithecus and associated fauna from Miocene sedimentary strata at Damiao, Inner Mongolia, China

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An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin

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Analysis of heat transport mechanisms from a Late Miocene model experiment with a fully-coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model

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Ancestral feeding state of ruminants reconsidered: earliest grazing adaptation claims a mixed condition for Cervidae

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Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

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Asynchronous responses of East Asian and Indian summer monsoons to mountain uplift shown by regional climate modelling experiments

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Biogeography of European land mammals shows environmentally distinct and spatially coherent clusters

scholarly article by H. Heikinheimo et al published June 2007 in Journal of Biogeography

Clusterings should not be compared by visual inspection: response to Gagné & Proulx

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Co-occurrence of pliopithecoid and hominoid primates in the fossil record: An ecometric analysis

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Computational biomes: The ecometrics of large mammal teeth

scientific article published in 2018

Convergence in the distribution patterns of Europe’s plants and mammals is due to environmental forcing

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Cope's Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Dental functional morphology predicts the scaling of chewing rate in mammals.

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

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

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2012)

Dental topography and diets of platyrrhine primates

Depositional environment reconstruction of the Maragheh Formation, East Azarbaijan, Northwestern Iran

Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna

scientific article (publication date: 21 July 2009)

Do species factories exist? Detecting exceptional patterns of evolution in the mammalian fossil record

scientific article published on 06 April 2022

Ecological specialization in fossil mammals explains Cope's rule.

scientific article published on 19 January 2012

Ecometrics: the traits that bind the past and present together

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Ecosystem evolution and hominin paleobiology at East Turkana, northern Kenya between 2.0 and 1.4 Ma

scholarly article by D.B. Patterson published in September 2017

Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2013)

Evolution of Neogene Mammals in Eurasia: Environmental Forcing and Biotic Interactions

Exploring the mammalian sensory space: co-operations and trade-offs among senses.

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

From card catalogs to computers: databases in vertebrate paleontology

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GENERA ARE OFTEN BETTER THAN SPECIES FOR DETECTING EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN THE FOSSIL RECORD: A REPLY TO SALESA ET AL

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Growth and wear of incisor and cheek teeth in domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) fed diets of different abrasiveness

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Herbivore teeth predict climatic limits in Kenyan ecosystems

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High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents.

scientific article published on 13 December 2006

Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2008)

History matters: ecometrics and integrative climate change biology

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2011)

Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear

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Introducing the Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers

Introduction to the special issue “The late Miocene Maragheh mammal fauna; results of recent multidisciplinary research”

K–Ar ages and petrology of the late Miocene pumices from the Maragheh Formation, northwest Iran

scholarly article by Yoshihiro Sawada et al published 24 June 2016 in Palaeobiodiversity and palaeoenvironments

Late Miocene and Pliocene large land mammals and climatic changes in Eurasia

scientific article published in 2006

Longer in the tooth, shorter in the record? The evolutionary correlates of hypsodonty in Neogene ruminants

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2011)

Lower extinction risk in sleep-or-hide mammals

scientific article published in February 2009

Magnetostratigraphy and paleoecology of the hominid-bearing locality Çorakyerler, Tuglu Formation (Çankiri Basin, Central Anatolia)

Mechanical modelling of tooth wear.

scientific article published on July 2016

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

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Modeling the Population-Level Processes of Biodiversity Gain and Loss at Geological Timescales

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Neogene aridification of the Northern Hemisphere

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Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of Ice Age megaherbivores

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Paleoecology of the Serengeti during the Oldowan-Acheulean transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: The mammal and fish evidence.

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Partitioning taxon, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity into replacement and richness difference components

scholarly article by Pedro Cardoso et al published 4 December 2013 in Journal of Biogeography

Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2014)

Preliminary magnetostratigraphic results from the late Miocene Maragheh Formation, NW Iran

Progress to extinction: increased specialisation causes the demise of animal clades

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Rapid action in the Palaeogene, the relationship between phenotypic and taxonomic diversification in Coenozoic mammals

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2013)

Reconciling taxon senescence with the Red Queen's hypothesis

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Regional climate model experiments to investigate the Asian monsoon in the Late Miocene

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Relative abundances and palaeoecology of four suid genera in the Turkana Basin, Kenya, during the late Miocene to Pleistocene

scholarly article by Janina Rannikko published in December 2017

Reply to Vilar et al.: Sleep or hide, better for survival anytime

scientific article (publication date: 27 August 2008)

Scaling of mammalian ethmoid bones can predict olfactory organ size and performance

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2005)

Seriation in paleontological data using markov chain Monte Carlo methods

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Significant mid-latitude aridity in the middle Miocene of East Asia

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Small mammal tooth enamel carbon isotope record of C 4 grasses in late Neogene China

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Strengthened East Asian summer monsoons during a period of high-latitude warmth? Isotopic evidence from Mio-Pliocene fossil mammals and soil carbonates from northern China

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The aspect Bernoulli model: multiple causes of presences and absences

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The case of the grass-eating suids in the Plio-Pleistocene Turkana Basin: 3D dental topography in relation to diet in extant and fossil pigs

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals

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The first hominoid from the Maragheh Formation, Iran

The grassiness of all flesh

The impact of regional climate on the evolution of mammals: a case study using fossil horses

scientific article published on 7 September 2009

The largest land mammal ever imagined

scientific article published in 1993

The late Miocene hominoid-bearing site in the Maragheh Formation, Northwest Iran

The maximum rate of mammal evolution

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2012)

The nature of the Old World savannah palaeobiome

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

The northernmost discovery of a Miocene proboscidean bone in Europe

scholarly article by J. Sakari Salonen published in July 2016

The palaeoenvironment of the middle Miocene pliopithecid locality in Damiao, Inner Mongolia, China

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

The phylogenetic signal in tooth wear: What does it mean?

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

The rise and fall of the Old World savannah fauna and the origins of the African savannah biome

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism

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Translating science for decision makers to help navigate the Anthropocene

scholarly article published 13 May 2014

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