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Christine M. Janis

Christine M. Janis

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
12358
World Ranking
3974
National Ranking
1391

Overview

Christine M. Janis is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has conducted extensive research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans a diverse range of subfields including Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Anthropology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The researcher has contributed significantly to topics related to Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Morphological Variations and Asymmetry, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Notable recent publications by Christine M. Janis include:

  • Jaw shape and mechanical advantage are indicative of diet in Mesozoic mammals, 2021, Communications Biology
  • An eye for a tooth: Thylacosmilus was not a marsupial "saber-tooth predator", 2020, PeerJ
  • Proximal Humerus Morphology Indicates Divergent Patterns of Locomotion in Extinct Giant Kangaroos, 2020, Journal of Mammalian Evolution
  • Postcranial elements of small mammals as indicators of locomotion and habitat, 2020, PeerJ
  • On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon "Cetartiodactyla", 2021, Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Frequent collaborators in their research include F. Harvey Pough, William E. Bemis, Betty McGuire, Emily J. Rayfield, and Nuria Melisa Morales-García.

The scholar has published across various respected venues, with multiple articles appearing in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Journal of Paleontology, PeerJ, Journal of Morphology, and Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.

In addition to journal articles, Christine M. Janis has contributed to book literature, including a publication by Oxford University Press titled Vertebrate Life, released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of Covariance by Computer Simulation

    Theodore Garland;Allan W. Dickerman;Christine M. Janis;Jason A. Jones

  • The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

    Erika J. Edwards;Colin P. Osborne;Caroline A.E. Strömberg;Stephen A. Smith

  • THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY OF THE EQUIDAE AND THE ORIGINS OF RUMEN AND CECAL DIGESTION.

    Christine Janis

  • Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America

    Christine M. Janis;Kathleen M. Scott;Louis L. Jacobs

  • Tertiary mammal evolution in the context of changing climates, vegetation, and tectonic events

    Christine M. Janis

  • ON THE MEANS WHEREBY MAMMALS ACHIEVE INCREASED FUNCTIONAL DURABILITY OF THEIR DENTITIONS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LIMITING FACTORS

    Christine M. Janis;Mikael Fortelius

  • On the relationship between hypsodonty and feeding ecology in ungulate mammals, and its utility in palaeoecology

    John Damuth;Christine M. Janis

  • Evolutionary and Preservational Constraints on Origins of Biologic Groups: Divergence Times of Eutherian Mammals

    Mike Foote;John P. Hunter;Christine M. Janis;J. John Sepkoski

  • Does metatarsal/femur ratio predict maximal running speed in cursorial mammals?

    Theodore Garland;Christine M. Janis

  • Miocene ungulates and terrestrial primary productivity: Where have all the browsers gone?

    Christine M. Janis;John Damuth;Jessica M. Theodor

  • Correlation of relative muzzle width and relative incisor width with dietary preference in ungulates

    Christine M. Janis;David Ehrhardt

  • EVOLUTION OF HORNS IN UNGULATES: ECOLOGY AND PALEOECOLOGY

    Christine Janis

  • The origins and evolution of the North American grassland biome: the story from the hoofed mammals

    Christine M. Janis;John Damuth;Jessica M. Theodor

  • Characterizing complex craniodental patterns related to feeding behaviour in ungulates: a multivariate approach

    Manuel Mendoza;Christine M. Janis;Paul Palmqvist

  • Were there mammalian pursuit predators in the tertiary? Dances with wolf avatars

    Christine M. Janis;Patricia Brady Wilhelm

  • The species richness of Miocene browsers, and implications for habitat type and primary productivity in the North American grassland biome

    Christine M Janis;John Damuth;Jessica M Theodor

  • An Evolutionary History of Browsing and Grazing Ungulates

    Christine Janis

  • Grit not grass: Concordant patterns of early origin of hypsodonty in Great Plains ungulates and Glires

    Phillip E. Jardine;Christine M. Janis;Sarda Sahney;Michael J. Benton

  • Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals II: application to fossil data

    J. T. Eronen;Kai Puolamäki;L. Liu;Kari Lintulaakso

  • Cenozoic climate change influences mammalian evolutionary dynamics

    Borja Figueirido;Christine M. Janis;Juan A. Pérez-Claros;Miquel De Renzi

  • Archaic ungulates (“Condylarthra”)

    J. David Archibald;Christine M. Janis;Kathleen M. Scott;Louis L. Jacobs

  • Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Contributors

    Christine M. Janis;Gregg F. Gunnell;Mark D. Uhen

  • Evolution of Tertiary Mammals in North America. Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate-like Mammals

    Philip D. Gingerich;Christine M. Janis;Kathleen M. Scott;Louis L. Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis L. Jacobs
Louis L. Jacobs Southern Methodist University
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki
Mikael Fortelius
Mikael Fortelius University of Helsinki
Paul Palmqvist
Paul Palmqvist University of Malaga
Andreas Mulch
Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt
Steven A. Benner
Steven A. Benner University of Florida
Michael Archer
Michael Archer University of New South Wales
Susanne A. Fritz
Susanne A. Fritz Goethe University Frankfurt
Theodore Garland
Theodore Garland University of California, Riverside
J. John Sepkoski
J. John Sepkoski University of Chicago

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