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Evolutionary Ecology

Graeme Ruxton's Research Group

University of St Andrews

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Paleobiology

I have an occasional interest in using ecological reasoning to shed light on how extinct organisms must have lived. My main collaborator in this is Dave Wilkinson from Liverpool John Moores University.

Some of these publications are listed below:

Wilkinson DM, Nisbet EG, Ruxton GD (2012) Could methane produced by sauropod dinosaurs have helped drive Mesozoic climate warmth? Current Biology 22, 292-293

Ruxton GD, Wilkinson DM (2011) Avoidance of overheating and selection for both hair loss and bipedality in hominins. PNAS 108, 20965-20969

Ruxton GD, Wilkinson (2011) The enregetics of low browsing in sauropods. Biology Letters 7,  779-781

Ruxton GD, Wilkinson DM (2011) Thermoregulation and endurance running in extinct hominins: Wheeler’s models revisited. Journal of Human Evolution 61, 169-175

Ruxton GD, Houston DC (2003) Could Tyrannosaurus rex have been a scavenger rather than a predator? An energetics approach. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 270, 731-733

 

 

Key Research Areas

  • Introduction
  • Statistical research
  • Paleobiology
  • Comparative biomechanics and scaling
  • Sensory aspects of plant-animal interactions
  • Evolutionary Ecology of Communication

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