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  1. The relationship between body size and skull and dental characters in cricetid rodents from Nebraska

    Article • December 2025, openRxiv

    Kate Lyons

  2. Consequences of the Megafauna Extinction: Changes in Food Web Networks on the Edwards Plateau Across the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, December 2025, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  3. Co-occurrence structure of late Ediacaran communities and influence of emerging ecosystem engineers

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2024, Royal Society Publishing

    Kate Lyons

  4. Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, September 2024, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  5. Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

    Article • Science, March 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Kate Lyons

  6. Ecological interactions disrupted by habitat alteration in the Neotropics

    Article • September 2022, Research Square

    Kate Lyons

  7. Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kate Lyons, Professor Felisa A Smith

  8. Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Lyons

  9. Anthropogenic disruptions to longstanding patterns of trophic-size structure in vertebrates

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Lyons

  10. Response to Comment on “The influence of juvenile dinosaurs on community structure and diversity”

    Article • Science, January 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Kate Lyons

  11. The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Loss of functional diversity and resilience over the Late Quaternary at Hall’s Cave

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, November 2021, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  12. The influence of juvenile dinosaurs on community structure and diversity

    Article • Science, February 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Kate Lyons

  13. Mammal species occupy different climates following the expansion of human impacts

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kate Lyons

  14. Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2021, Elsevier

    Kate Lyons

  15. Late Quaternary extinctions in the Indian Subcontinent

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2021, Elsevier

    Kate Lyons

  16. Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America

    Article • Ecography, October 2020, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  17. Changes in the diet and body size of a small herbivorous mammal (hispid cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus ) following the late Pleistocene megafauna extinction

    Article • Ecography, April 2020, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  18. Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction

    Article • Science, September 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Kate Lyons

  19. Macroecological patterns of mammals across taxonomic, spatial, and temporal scales

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, May 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kate Lyons

  20. The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, May 2019, Elsevier

    Kate Lyons

  21. Evidence for Trait-Based Dominance in Occupancy among Fossil Taxa and the Decoupling of Macroecological and Macroevolutionary Success

    Article • The American Naturalist, September 2018, University of Chicago Press

    Kate Lyons, Professor Roy E. Plotnick

  22. Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

    Article • Science, April 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Kate Lyons

  23. A cranial correlate of body mass in proboscideans

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kate Lyons

  24. Biotic interchange has structured Western Hemisphere mammal communities

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, November 2017, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  25. Hierarchical complexity and the size limits of life

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Kate Lyons, Professor Michal Kowalewski

  26. Lyons et al. reply

    Article • Nature, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Lyons

  27. Questioning Holocene community shifts

    Article • Nature, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Lyons

  28. The changing role of mammal life histories in Late Quaternary extinction vulnerability on continents and islands

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Kate Lyons

  29. The fossil record of the sixth extinction

    Article • Ecology Letters, March 2016, Wiley

    Kate Lyons, Professor Roy E. Plotnick

  30. Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

    Article • Nature, December 2015, Nature

    Ms Rebeckah Aubertin, Kate Lyons

  31. Exploring the influence of ancient and historic megaherbivore extirpations on the global methane budget

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kate Lyons

  32. Unraveling the consequences of the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction on mammal community assembly

    Article • Ecography, October 2015, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  33. The importance of considering animal body mass in IPCC greenhouse inventories and the underappreciated role of wild herbivores

    Article • Global Change Biology, June 2015, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  34. A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary

    Article • Ecography, July 2014, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  35. Mammals of Kenya's protected areas from 1888 to 2013

    Article • Ecology, June 2014, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. DIRCEU COSTA, Kate Lyons

  37. A Century of Change in Kenya's Mammal Communities: Increased Richness and Decreased Uniqueness in Six Protected Areas

    Article • PLOS One, April 2014, PLOS

    Kate Lyons

  38. Ecological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in a modern mammalian bone assemblage (Amboseli, Kenya)

    Article • Paleobiology, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Kate Lyons

  39. The mid-domain effect: it's not just about space

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2013, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr. DIRCEU COSTA, Kate Lyons

  41. Range sizes and shifts of North American Pleistocene mammals are not consistent with a climatic explanation for extinction

    Article • World Archaeology, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Kate Lyons

  42. The maximum rate of mammal evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. DIRCEU COSTA, Kate Lyons

  43. How big should a mammal be? A macroecological look at mammalian body size over space and time

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Felisa A Smith, Kate Lyons

  44. THE GEOZOIC SUPEREON

    Article • Palaios, May 2011, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Kate Lyons, Professor Michal Kowalewski

  45. Reply to ‘Methane and megafauna’

    Article • Nature Geoscience, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Lyons

  46. The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

    Article • Science, November 2010, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr. DIRCEU COSTA, Kate Lyons

  47. Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Kate Lyons

  48. Ecological correlates of range shifts of Late Pleistocene mammals

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Kate Lyons

  49. Using a Macroecological Approach to Study Geographic Range, Abundance and Body Size in the Fossil Record

    Article • The Paleontological Society Papers, October 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Kate Lyons

  50. The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective

    Article • Photosynthesis Research, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Lyons, Professor Michal Kowalewski

  51. Methane emissions from extinct megafauna

    Article • Nature Geoscience, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Lyons

  52. Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology

    Article • Ecology Letters, September 2009, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  53. Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kate Lyons, Professor Michal Kowalewski

  54. CRITICAL ISSUES OF SCALE IN PALEOECOLOGY

    Article • Palaios, January 2009, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Kate Lyons, Professor Michal Kowalewski

  55. Macroecology: more than the division of food and space among species on continents

    Article • Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, April 2008, SAGE Publications

    Kate Lyons

  56. The Past and Future of Biogeography

    Article • Journal of Mammalian Evolution, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kate Lyons

  57. Ecotypic variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting the rules

    Article • Ecology Letters, July 2006, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  58. A Quantitative Model for Assessing Community Dynamics of Pleistocene Mammals

    Article • The American Naturalist, June 2005, University of Chicago Press

    Kate Lyons

  59. Was a ‘hyperdisease’ responsible for the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction?

    Article • Ecology Letters, July 2004, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  60. Similarity of Mammalian Body Size across the Taxonomic Hierarchy and across Space and Time

    Article • The American Naturalist, May 2004, University of Chicago Press

    Kate Lyons

  61. BODY MASS OF LATE QUATERNARY MAMMALS

    Article • Ecology, December 2003, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  62. Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use

    Article • Ecology Letters, September 2003, Wiley

    Kate Lyons

  63. A QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE RANGE SHIFTS OF PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, May 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Kate Lyons

  64. An Analytical Model of Latitudinal Gradients of Species Richness with an Empirical Test for Marsupials and Bats in the New World

    Article • Oikos, February 1998, JSTOR

    Kate Lyons

  65. Latitudinal Patterns of Range Size: Methodological Concerns and Empirical Evaluations for New World Bats and Marsupials

    Article • Oikos, September 1997, JSTOR

    Kate Lyons