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  1. Scaling and neuronal counts evolutionary dynamics across amniotes

    Article • Brain Behavior and Evolution, March 2026, Karger Publishers

    Pasquale Raia

  2. An enduring palaeontological riddle: how many hippopotamid species roamed Sicily? The case study of Amoroso Cave

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pasquale Raia

  3. Strong evidence for the evolution of decreasing compositional heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 genomes during the pandemic

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  4. RRphylogeography: A new method to find the area of origin of species and the history of past contacts between species

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2025, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  5. Cortical areas associated to higher cognition drove primate brain evolution

    Article • Communications Biology, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  6. EutherianCoP. An integrated biotic and climate database for conservation paleobiology based on eutherian mammals

    Article • Scientific Data, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  7. An accelerating, decreasing phylogenetic trend in SARS-CoV-2 genome compositional heterogeneity during the pandemic

    Article • December 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Pasquale Raia

  8. Phylogenetic Analysis of 590 Species Reveals Distinct Evolutionary Patterns of Intron–Exon Gene Structures Across Eukaryotic Lineages

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, December 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pasquale Raia

  9. Past climate change effects on human evolution

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  10. RRmorph—a new R package to map phenotypic evolutionary rates and patterns on 3D meshes

    Article • Communications Biology, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  11. Modelling reveals the effect of climate and land use change on Madagascar’s chameleons fauna

    Article • Communications Biology, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  12. Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal

    Article • BioScience, June 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Manuel Sanchez, Dr Marina Piria, Pasquale Raia

  13. Phase synchronization between culture and climate forcing

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

    Pasquale Raia

  14. Virtual reconstruction of the Canis arnensis type (Canidae, Mammalia) from the Upper Valdarno Basin (Italy, Early Pleistocene)

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  15. Morphometric changes in Watznaueria barnesiae across the mid Cretaceous: Paleoecological implications

    Article • Marine Micropaleontology, April 2024, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  16. Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2024, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  17. Conical and sabertoothed cats as an exception to craniofacial evolutionary allometry

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  18. Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia

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

    Pasquale Raia

  19. Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years

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

    Pasquale Raia

  20. ENphylo: A new method to model the distribution of extremely rare species

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2023, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  21. Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share high cerebral cortex integration into adulthood

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  22. Testing for changes in rate of evolution and position of the climatic niche of clades

    Article • Mammal Review, September 2022, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  23. Trapped in the morphospace: The relationship between morphological integration and functional performance

    Article • Evolution, July 2022, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  24. Paleomimetics: A Conceptual Framework for a Biomimetic Design Inspired by Fossils and Evolutionary Processes

    Article • Biomimetics, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Pasquale Raia

  25. The emergence of variants with increased fitness accelerates the slowdown of genome sequence heterogeneity in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

    Article • May 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Pasquale Raia

  26. One among many: the enigmatic case of the Miocene mammal, Kolponomos newportensis

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, May 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pasquale Raia

  27. Climate effects on archaic human habitats and species successions

    Article • Nature, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  28. Small brains predisposed Late Quaternary mammals to extinction

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  29. Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger

    Article • Palaeontology, January 2022, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  30. Human face‐off: a new method for mapping evolutionary rates on three‐dimensional digital models

    Article • Palaeontology, November 2021, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  31. Adaptive trends of sequence compositional complexity over pandemic time in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

    Article • November 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Pasquale Raia

  32. Morphometric Maps of Bilateral Asymmetry in the Human Humerus: An Implementation in the R Package Morphomap

    Article • Symmetry, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Pasquale Raia

  33. The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia

    Article • Ecography, September 2021, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  34. Too simple models may predict the island rule for the wrong reasons

    Article • Ecology Letters, September 2021, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  35. A New Integrated Tool to Calculate and Map Bilateral Asymmetry on Three-Dimensional Digital Models

    Article • Symmetry, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Pasquale Raia

  36. Retrodeformation of the Steinheim Cranium: Insights into the Evolution of Neanderthals

    Article • Symmetry, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Pasquale Raia

  37. New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  38. Arothron: An R package for geometric morphometric methods and virtual anthropology applications

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, June 2021, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  39. Correction: A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data

    Article • PLOS One, May 2021, PLOS

    Pasquale Raia

  40. A method for mapping morphological convergence on three‐dimensional digital models: the case of the mammalian sabre‐tooth

    Article • Palaeontology, May 2021, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  41. Testing the occurrence of convergence in the craniomandibular shape evolution of living carnivorans*

    Article • Evolution, May 2021, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  42. Quantitative genetics of extreme insular dwarfing: The case of red deer on Jersey

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, April 2021, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  43. The influence of domestication, insularity and sociality on the tempo and mode of brain size evolution in mammals

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pasquale Raia

  44. A Major Change in Rate of Climate Niche Envelope Evolution during Hominid History

    Article • iScience, November 2020, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  45. Editorial: Evolving Virtual and Computational Paleontology

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, October 2020, Frontiers

    Pasquale Raia

  46. Past Extinctions of Homo Species Coincided with Increased Vulnerability to Climatic Change

    Article • One Earth, October 2020, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  47. morphomap: An R package for long bone landmarking, cortical thickness, and cross‐sectional geometry mapping

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, August 2020, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  48. From Smart Apes to Human Brain Boxes. A Uniquely Derived Brain Shape in Late Hominins Clade

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, July 2020, Frontiers

    Pasquale Raia

  49. Variation in the strength of allometry drives rates of evolution in primate brain shape

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Pasquale Raia

  50. Oichnus taddeii, a new fossil trace produced by capulids on brachiopod shells

    Article • Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, July 2020, Universitat de Valencia

    Pasquale Raia

  51. MInOSSE: A new method to reconstruct geographic ranges of fossil species

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, June 2020, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  52. Target Deformation of the Equus stenonis Holotype Skull: A Virtual Reconstruction

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, June 2020, Frontiers

    Pasquale Raia

  53. Ancestral State Estimation with Phylogenetic Ridge Regression

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  54. Locomotory Adaptations in 3D Humerus Geometry of Xenarthra: Testing for Convergence

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, May 2020, Frontiers

    Pasquale Raia

  55. Decoupling Functional and Morphological Convergence, the Study Case of Fossorial Mammalia

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, April 2020, Frontiers

    Pasquale Raia

  56. Current Options for Visualization of Local Deformation in Modern Shape Analysis Applied to Paleobiological Case Studies

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, March 2020, Frontiers

    Pasquale Raia

  57. Endomaker, a new algorithm for fully automatic extraction of cranial endocasts and the calculation of their volumes

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, March 2020, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  58. A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data

    Article • PLOS One, December 2019, PLOS

    Pasquale Raia

  59. A 450 million years long latitudinal gradient in age‐dependent extinction

    Article • Ecology Letters, December 2019, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  60. Macroevolutionary trends of brain mass in Primates

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pasquale Raia

  61. Macroevolution of Toothed Whales Exceptional Relative Brain Size

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  62. Quantitative genetics of body size evolution on islands: an individual-based simulation approach

    Article • Biology Letters, October 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Pasquale Raia

  63. Impact of transition to a subterranean lifestyle on morphological disparity and integration in talpid moles (Mammalia, Talpidae)

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  64. A dynamic analysis of Middle Pleistocene human walking gait adjustment and control

    Article • Italian Journal of Geosciences, June 2019, Societa Geologica Italiana

    Pasquale Raia

  65. A New Tool for Digital Alignment in Virtual Anthropology

    Article • The Anatomical Record, February 2019, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  66. Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears

    Article • Boreas, February 2019, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia, Mirko Di Febbraro

  67. Simultaneous detection of macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic means and rate of change with and within phylogenetic trees including extinct species

    Article • PLOS One, January 2019, PLOS

    Pasquale Raia

  68. Multiple Components of Phylogenetic Non-stationarity in the Evolution of Brain Size in Fossil Hominins

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  69. Anagenesis and Cladogenesis Are Useful Island Biogeography Terms

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, December 2018, Elsevier

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  70. Bacteria and parasites in Podarcis sicula and P. sicula klemmerii

    Article • BMC Veterinary Research, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  71. Using macroecological constraints on spatial biodiversity predictions under climate change: the modelling method matters

    Article • Ecological Modelling, December 2018, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  72. The well-behaved killer: Late Pleistocene humans in Eurasia were significantly associated with living megafauna only

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, July 2018, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  73. MicroWeaR: A new R package for dental microwear analysis

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2018, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  74. Unexpectedly rapid evolution of mandibular shape in hominins

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  75. Evolution of the sabertooth mandible: A deadly ecomorphological specialization

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  76. Fragmentation of Neanderthals' pre-extinction distribution by climate change

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  77. Reproducing the internal and external anatomy of fossil bones: Two new automatic digital tools

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2018, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  78. Who is the most stressed? Morphological disparity and mechanical behavior of the feeding apparatus of ceratopsian dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Marginocephalia)

    Article • Cretaceous Research, April 2018, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  79. A new method for testing evolutionary rate variation and shifts in phenotypic evolution

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2018, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  80. Diversification Rates and the Evolution of Species Range Size Frequency Distribution

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, November 2017, Frontiers

    Pasquale Raia

  81. The evolution of cranial base and face in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea: Modularity and morphological integration

    Article • American Journal of Primatology, November 2017, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  82. Living with the elephant in the room: Top-down control in Eurasian large mammal diversity over the last 22 million years

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2017, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  83. Does the jack of all trades fare best? Survival and niche width in Late Pleistocene megafauna

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Luigi Maiorano, Pasquale Raia

  84. Conservation of salamanders in managed forests: Methods and costs of monitoring abundance and habitat selection

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2017, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  85. Island Rule, quantitative genetics and brain–body size evolution in Homo floresiensis

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

    Pasquale Raia

  86. A New Statistical Approach for Landslide Susceptibility Assessment in the Urban Area of Napoli (Italy)

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  87. The influence of climate on species distribution over time and space during the late Quaternary

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, October 2016, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  88. Like a pig out of water: seaborne spread of domestic pigs in Southern Italy and Sardinia during the Bronze and Iron Ages

    Article • Heredity, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  89. Predicted sea-level changes and evolutionary estimates for age of isolation in Central Mediterranean insular lizards

    Article • The Holocene, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Pasquale Raia

  90. Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2016, Wiley

    Mr Alex Slavenko, Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

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

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  92. From Evolutionary Allometry to Sexual Display: (A Reply to Holman and Bro-Jørgensen)

    Article • The American Naturalist, August 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  93. Venturing out safely: The biogeography of Homo erectus dispersal out of Africa

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, June 2016, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  94. Macroevolution

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pasquale Raia

  95. The conceptual framework of ontogenetic trajectories: parallel transport allows the recognition and visualization of pure deformation patterns

    Article • Evolution & Development, May 2016, Wiley

    Pasquale Raia

  96. Phylogenetic fields through time: temporal dynamics of geographical co-occurrence and phylogenetic structure within species ranges

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Fabricio Villalobos, Pasquale Raia

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

    Article • The American Naturalist, December 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Pasquale Raia

  98. Space and time: The two dimensions of Artiodactyla body mass evolution

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  99. Analysis of Heavy Metal Sources for Urban Creeks in the Czech Republic

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia

  100. Size matters: A comparative analysis of pig domestication

    Article • The Holocene, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    Pasquale Raia, Dr Domenico Fulgione

  101. Cope’s Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity

    Article • The American Naturalist, August 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Pasquale Raia

  102. Ecomorphology of Carnivora challenges convergent evolution

    Article • Organisms Diversity & Evolution, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  103. Chewing on the trees: Constraints and adaptation in the evolution of the primate mandible

    Article • Evolution, June 2015, Wiley

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  104. Wild boars’ social structure in the Mediterranean habitat

    Article • Italian Journal of Zoology, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Dr Valeria Maselli, Pasquale Raia

  105. Morphological integration and functional modularity in the crocodilian skull

    Article • Integrative Zoology, August 2014, Wiley

    Luciano Teresi, Pasquale Raia

  106. Seeing through the skin: dermal light sensitivity provides cryptism in moorish gecko

    Article • Journal of Zoology, July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Pasquale Raia, Raoul Van Damme

  107. The number of competitor species is unlinked to sexual dimorphism

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, June 2014, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Pasquale Raia

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

    Article • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, May 2014, Annual Reviews

    Pasquale Raia

  109. A new sphenodontian (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Italy and the phylogenetic affinities of the Pietraroia Plattenkalk rhynchocephalians

    Article • Cretaceous Research, May 2014, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  110. Ecogeographical variation in skull morphometry of howler monkeys (Primates: Atelidae)

    Article • Zoologischer Anzeiger, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  111. The Evolution of Large Mammal Communities: Beyond Biochronology

    Article • Annales Zoologici Fennici, April 2014, Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board

    Pasquale Raia

  112. Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2014, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  113. Index

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  114. Darwinian shortfalls in biodiversity conservation

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, December 2013, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  115. A Dysfunctional Sense of Smell: The Irreversibility of Olfactory Evolution in Free-Living Pigs

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Pasquale Raia

  116. Ecogeographical variation in skull shape of capuchin monkeys

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  117. Bite of the Cats: Relationships between Functional Integration and Mechanical Performance as Revealed by Mandible Geometry

    Article • Systematic Biology, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Luciano Teresi, Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  118. In and Out the Amazonia: Evolutionary Ecomorphology in Howler and Capuchin Monkeys

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  119. The study of ontogenetic trajectory reveals the timing of reproductive events inAncylus fluviatilis(Gastropoda: Planorbidae)

    Article • Molluscan Research, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Pasquale Raia

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Pasquale Raia

  121. Physiological change in an insular lizard population confirms the reversed island syndrome

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Pasquale Raia, Raoul Van Damme

  122. The island syndrome in lizards

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, August 2012, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Miss Maria Novosolov, Pasquale Raia

  123. Ecological Specialization in Fossil Mammals Explains Cope’s Rule

    Article • The American Naturalist, March 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Pasquale Raia

  124. Phylogenetic signal, function and integration in the subunits of the carnivoran mandible

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  125. Habitat tracking, stasis and survival in Neogene large mammals

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Pasquale Raia

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Pasquale Raia

  127. THE TEMPO AND MODE OF EVOLUTION: BODY SIZES OF ISLAND MAMMALS

    Article • Evolution, March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  128. TheGavialis–Tomistomadebate: the contribution of skull ontogenetic allometry and growth trajectories to the study of crocodylian relationships

    Article • Evolution & Development, October 2010, Wiley

    Paolo Colangelo, Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  129. Cats and Dogs Down the Tree: The Tempo and Mode of Evolution in the Lower Carnassial of Fossil and Living Carnivora

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  130. The blue lizard spandrel and the island syndrome

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Domenico Fulgione, Pasquale Raia

  131. Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, September 2010, Wiley

    Albert Phillimore, Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  132. Bioerosion structures and their distribution on shells of the Lower Pleistocene terebratulid brachiopod Gryphus minor

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, July 2010, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  133. One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2010, Wiley

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  134. Species accumulation over space and time in European Plio-Holocene mammals

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  135. PHYLOGENETIC COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY OVER TIME IN EURASIAN PLIO-PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS

    Article • Palaios, May 2010, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Pasquale Raia

  136. Reptilian all the way?

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  137. Ecophenotypic variation and phylogenetic inheritance in first lower molar shape of extant Italian populations of Microtus (Terricola) savii (Rodentia)

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, February 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pasquale Raia

  138. THE SHAPE OF CONTENTION: ADAPTATION, HISTORY, AND CONTINGENCY IN UNGULATE MANDIBLES

    Article • Evolution, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  139. Occupancy, range size, and phylogeny in Eurasian Pliocene to Recent large mammals

    Article • Paleobiology, January 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Pasquale Raia

  140. More than three million years of community evolution. The temporal and geographical resolution of the Plio-Pleistocene Western Eurasia mammal faunas

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  141. Testing evolutionary stasis and trends in first lower molar shape of extinct Italian populations of Terricola savii (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) by means of geometric morphometrics

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, December 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Pasquale Raia

  142. The shape of the mandibular corpus in large fissiped carnivores: allometry, function and phylogeny

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, December 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  143. Diversity and turnover of Plio-Pleistocene large mammal fauna from the Italian Peninsula

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  144. Human influence on distribution and extinctions of the late Pleistocene Eurasian megafauna

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, June 2008, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  145. Inconstancy in predator/prey ratios in Quaternary large mammal communities of Italy, with an appraisal of mechanisms

    Article • Quaternary Research, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Carlo Meloro, Pasquale Raia

  146. The Lower Cretaceous lizard genus Chometokadmon from Italy

    Article • Cretaceous Research, October 2006, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  147. Bioerosion on Brachiopod Shells of a Thanatocoenosis of Alboràn Sea (Spain)

    Article • Ichnos, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Pasquale Raia

  148. THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY

    Article • Evolution, August 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  149. Detection of Plio-Quaternary large mammal communities of Italy. An integration of fossil faunas biochronology and similarity

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2006, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  150. THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY

    Article • Evolution, January 2006, The Society for the Study of Evolution

    Shai Meiri, Pasquale Raia

  151. Turnover pulse or Red Queen? Evidence from the large mammal communities during the Plio-Pleistocene of Italy

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, June 2005, Elsevier

    Pasquale Raia

  152. Early-Middle Pleistocene structural changes in mammalian communities from the Italian peninsula

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2005, Geological Society

    Pasquale Raia

  153. Morphological correlates of tough food consumption in large land carnivores

    Article • Italian Journal of Zoology, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Pasquale Raia

  154. The fast life of a dwarfed giant

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, May 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Pasquale Raia