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Mikael Fortelius

Mikael Fortelius

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
60
Citations
15122
World Ranking
2278
National Ranking
35

Overview

Mikael Fortelius is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research spans multiple aspects of paleontology, archaeology, ecology, and environmental sciences, with a particular focus on Pleistocene-era hominins, evolutionary studies, and the environmental contexts of ancient human populations.

Their work covers a variety of main fields of study, including:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Fortelius has contributed substantially to several subfields, such as:

  • Paleontology
  • Anthropology
  • Ecology
  • Archeology
  • Social Psychology

Their main research topics include:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Archaeological and Geological Studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Fortelius's recent papers demonstrate a diverse range of subject matter related to paleoenvironmental reconstructions, evolutionary biology, and early human dispersal. Some examples include:

  • "Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism," 2021, One Earth
  • "Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Old world hipparion evolution, biogeography, climatology and ecology," 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "New stratigraphically constrained palaeoenvironmental reconstructions for the first human settlement in Western Europe: The Early Pleistocene herpetofaunal assemblages from Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Granada, SE Spain)," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)," 2021, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fortelius include:

  • Juha Saarinen
  • Indrė Žliobaitė
  • Hugues-Alexandre Blain
  • Oriol Oms
  • Jordi Agustí

Fortelius has published frequently in venues such as:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • Paleobiology
  • Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
  • Annales Zoologici Fennici

This combination of publication venues, coauthor networks, and research topics reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ancient environments and evolutionary processes.

Best Publications

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • Functional Characterization of Ungulate Molars Using the Abrasion-Attrition Wear Gradient: A New Method for Reconstructing Paleodiets

    Mikael Fortelius;Nikos Solounias

  • Ungulate cheek teeth : developmental, functional, and evolutionary interrelations

    M. Fortelius

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

    Christine M. Janis;Mikael Fortelius

  • High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents.

    Alistair Robert Evans;Gregory P Wilson;Mikael Fortelius;Jukka Jernvall

  • Fossil mammals resolve regional patterns of Eurasian climate change over 20 million years

    Mikael Fortelius;Jussi Eronen;Jukka Jernvall;Liping Liu

  • Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Patrick Gonzalez;Patrick Gonzalez;Jason Head

  • The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

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

  • Adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of dinosaurs

    Gregory P Wilson;Alistair Robert Evans;Ian J Corfe;Peter Smits;Peter Smits

  • Partitioning taxon, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity into replacement and richness difference components

    Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;François Rigal;José C. Carvalho;José C. Carvalho;Mikael Fortelius;Mikael Fortelius

  • Late Miocene and Pliocene large land mammals and climatic changes in Eurasia

    Mikael Fortelius;Jussi Eronen;Liping Liu;Liping Liu;Diana Pushkina

  • Out of Tibet: Pliocene Woolly Rhino Suggests High-Plateau Origin of Ice Age Megaherbivores

    Tao Deng;Xiaoming Wang;Xiaoming Wang;Mikael Fortelius;Mikael Fortelius;Qiang Li

  • Strengthened East Asian summer monsoons during a period of high-latitude warmth? Isotopic evidence from Mio-Pliocene fossil mammals and soil carbonates from northern China

    Benjamin H. Passey;Linda K. Ayliffe;Linda K. Ayliffe;Anu Kaakinen;Zhaoqun Zhang

  • Molar Tooth Diversity, Disparity, and Ecology in Cenozoic Ungulate Radiations

    Jukka Jernvall;John P. Hunter;Mikael Fortelius

  • Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear

    Thomas M. Kaiser;Dennis W. H. Müller;Mikael Fortelius;Ellen Schulz

  • Common mammals drive the evolutionary increase of hypsodonty in the Neogene

    Jukka Jernvall;Mikael Fortelius

  • Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna

    Jussi T. Eronen;Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi;Arne Micheels;Aleksis Karme

  • Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals

    Lee Hsiang Liow;Mikael Fortelius;Ella Bingham;Kari Lintulaakso

  • Stephanorhinus (Mammalia: Rhinocerotidae) of the western European Pleistocene, with a revision of S. etruscus (Falconer, 1868)

    M. Fortelius;P. Mazza;B. Sala

  • Provinciality, diversity, turnover, and paleoecology in land mammal faunas of the later Miocene of western Eurasia

    M. Fortelius;Lars Werdelin;P. Andrews;R. L. Bernor

  • Biology and Body Size in Human Evolution: Statistical Inference Misapplied [and Comments and Reply]

    Richard J. Smith;Gene H. Albrecht;John Damuth;Mario Di Bacco

  • 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

Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki
Heikki Mannila
Heikki Mannila Aalto University
Jukka Jernvall
Jukka Jernvall University of Helsinki
Pasquale Raia
Pasquale Raia University of Naples Federico II
Lars Werdelin
Lars Werdelin Swedish Museum of Natural History
James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Sevket Sen
Sevket Sen French National Museum of Natural History
Christine M. Janis
Christine M. Janis Brown University
Benjamin H. Passey
Benjamin H. Passey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anthony D. Barnosky
Anthony D. Barnosky University of California, Berkeley

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