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47
Citations
9765
World Ranking
4387
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1527

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1955 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Felisa A. Smith is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Ecology, Paleontology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work spans several main topics including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Felisa A. Smith include the following:

  • Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The influence of juvenile dinosaurs on community structure and diversity, 2021, Science
  • The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Loss of functional diversity and resilience over the Late Quaternary at Hall's Cave, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • White Paper: An Integrated Perspective on the Causes of Hypometric Metabolic Scaling in Animals, 2022, Integrative and Comparative Biology

Frequent co-authors working with Felisa A. Smith include:

  • S. Kathleen Lyons
  • Catalina P. Tomé
  • Emma A. Elliott Smith
  • Seth D. Newsome
  • Marie L. Westover

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Science
  • Ecography
  • Journal of Mammalogy
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology

Felisa A. Smith also has book publications, including the title Mammalian Paleoecology, published in 2021 by Johns Hopkins University Press.

In recognition of their scientific work, Felisa A. Smith was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1955.

Best Publications

  • ENERGY AND MATERIAL FLOW THROUGH THE URBAN ECOSYSTEM

    Ethan H. Decker;Scott Elliott;Felisa A. Smith;Donald R. Blake

  • Body mass of late Quaternary mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons;S. K. Morgan Ernest;Kate E. Jones

  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

    Yadvinder Malhi;Christopher E. Doughty;Mauro Galetti;Felisa A. Smith

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

    Virginie Millien;S. Kathleen Lyons;Link Olson;Felisa A. Smith

  • Pleistocene rewilding: an optimistic agenda for twenty-first century conservation.

    C. Josh Donlan;Joel Berger;Carl E. Bock;Jane H. Bock

  • Behavioral flexibility as a mechanism for coping with climate change

    Erik A Beever;Erik A Beever;L Embere Hall;Johanna Varner;Anne E Loosen

  • Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

    Felisa A. Smith;Rosemary E. Elliott Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons;Jonathan L. Payne

  • Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown

  • Evolution of Body Size in the Woodrat over the Past 25,000 Years of Climate Change

    Felisa A. Smith;Julio L. Betancourt;James H. Brown

  • The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Daniel P. Costa

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

    Jonathan L. Payne;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Seth Finnegan

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

    S. K. Morgan Ernest;Brian J. Enquist;James H. Brown;Eric L. Charnov

  • Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries

    Felisa A. Smith;John L. Gittleman;James H. Brown

  • Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time.

    Felisa A. Smith;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown;John P. Haskell;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

    John M. Grady;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Eva Dettweiler-Robinson;Natalie A. Wright

  • Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

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

    Felisa A. Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • The Influence of Climate Change on the Body Mass of Woodrats Neotoma in an Arid Region of New Mexico, USA

    Felisa A. Smith;Hillary Browning;Ursula L. Shepherd

  • The maximum rate of mammal evolution

    Alistair R. Evans;David Jones;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown

  • Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers:

    G. M. MacDonald;K. D. Bennett;S. T. Jackson;Laura Parducci

  • The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective

    Jonathan L. Payne;Craig R. McClain;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown

  • Supporting Online Material for The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Daniel P. Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Kathleen Lyons
S. Kathleen Lyons University of Nebraska–Lincoln
James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
S. K. Morgan Ernest
S. K. Morgan Ernest University of Florida
Jonathan L. Payne
Jonathan L. Payne Stanford University
Seth Finnegan
Seth Finnegan University of California, Berkeley
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Seth D. Newsome
Seth D. Newsome University of New Mexico
Donald R. Blake
Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine
Michał Kowalewski
Michał Kowalewski Florida Museum of Natural History
F. Sherwood Rowland
F. Sherwood Rowland University of California, Irvine

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