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Publications

2017
• Beever, E.A, L.E. Hall, J. Varner, A.E. Loosen, J.B. Dunham, M.K. Gahl, F.A. Smith, and J.J. Lawler. 2017. Behavior as a mechanism for coping with climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, in press.
• Harding, L.E., F.A. Smith, I.W. Murray, H.M. Lease and J.T. Martin. 2016. Heat, sex and death: the curious tale of a desert mammal. Pages xx-xx in Natural History of Death Valley and the Mojave Desert (Steve Rowland, editor), University of California Press, Berkeley, in press.

2016
• Malhi, Y., C. Doughty, M. Galetti, F.A. Smith, J-C. Svenning and J. Terborgh. 2016. Megafauna and ecosystem function: from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 113:838-846.
• Smith, F.A., J.L. Payne, M. Balk, S. Finnegan, N.A. Heim, M. Kowalewski, S.K. Lyons, C.R. McClain, D.W. McShea, P.M. Novack-Gottshall, P.A. Spaeth Anich and S.C. Wang. 2016. Body size evolution across the Geozoic. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 44:523-553 (DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012147).
• Plotnick, R., F.A. Smith and S.K. Lyons. 2016. The fossil record of the sixth extinction. Ecology Letters 19:546-553 (Advance online publication March 2016; DOI:10.1111/ecog.02156).
• Lyons, S.K., J.H. Miller, D. Fraser, F.A. Smith, A. Boyer, E. Lindsey and A.M. Mychajliw. 2016. The changing role of mammal life histories in late Quaternary extinction vulnerability on continents and islands. Biology Letters 12(6):20160342 (DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0342. Published 21 June 2016).

2015
• Grady, J.M., B.J. Enquist, E. Dettweiler-Robinson, N.A. Wright, & F.A. Smith. 2014. Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs. Science 344:1268-1272. (See also, Response to Comments on "Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs"
• Smith, F.A., S.M. Elliott, S.K. Lyons and P. Wagner. 2015. The importance of considering animal body mass in IPCC greenhouse inventories and the underappreciated role of wild herbivores. Global Change Biology 21:3880-3888; DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12973.
• Pardi, M.I. and F.A. Smith. ­2015 (online); 2016. The response of canids to the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction. Ecography 39:141-151 (Advance online publication September 2015; DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01596).
• Smith, F.A., J.I. Hammond, M.A. Balk, S.M. Elliott, S.K. Lyons, M.I. Pardi, C.P. Tomé, P.J. Wagner and M.L. Westover. 2015 (online); 2016. Exploring the influence of ancient and historic megaherbivore extirpations on the global methane budget. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 113:874-879. (Advance online publication September 2015; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1502547112).
• Smith, F.A., C.P. Tomé, E.A. Elliott Smith, S.K. Lyons, S.D. Newsome and T.W. Stafford. 2015 (online); 2016. Unraveling the consequences of the terminal Pleistocene megafauna extinction on mammal community assembly. Ecography 39:223-239 (Advance online publication September 2015; DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01779).
• Smith, F.A., C. Doughty, Y. Malhi, Y., C. Doughty, J-C Svenning and J. Terborgh. 2015 (online); 2016. Megafauna in the Earth System. Ecography 39:99-108 (Advance online publication September 2015; DOI: 10.1111/ecog.02156).

2014
• Smith, F.A., I.W. Murray, L.E. Harding, H.M. Lease, & J. Martin. 2014. Life in an extreme environment: a historical perspective on the influence of temperature on the ecology and evolution of woodrats. Journal of Mammalogy 95:xx-xx.
• Smith, F.A., J.L. Gittleman, & J.H. Brown. 2014. Foundations of Macroecology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Smith, F.A., J.L. Gittleman, & J.H. Brown. 2014. The macro of macroecology. Pages 1-4 in Foundations of Macroecology (F.A. Smith, J.L. Gittleman & J.H. Brown, editors), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Evans, A., D.P. Costa, K. Niklas, R.M. Sibly, & F.A. Smith. 2014. Dimensions of macroecology: allometry and body size. Pages 150-153 in Foundations of Macroecology (F.A. Smith, J.L. Gittleman & J.H. Brown, editors), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Smith, F.A. 2014. Commentary on Brown and Nicoletto. Pages 245-246 in Foundations of Macroecology (F.A. Smith, J.L. Gittleman & J.H. Brown, editors), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

• Saarinen, J. J., A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman,M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.G. Okie, R.M. Sibly, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, M.D. Uhen, & F.A. Smith. 2014. Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: ecoevolutionary processes and abiotic forcing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281 (1784): 20132049.

2013
• Smith, F.A. & S.K. Lyons, editors. 2013. Animal Body Size: linking pattern and process across space, time and taxonomy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Smith, F.A. & S.K. Lyons. 2013. On being the right size: the importance of size in life history, ecology and evolution. Pages 1-10 in Body size: linking pattern and process across space, time and taxonomy (Smith, F.A. and S.K. Lyons, editors), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Lyons, S.K. & F.A. Smith. 2013. Macroecological patterns of body size in mammals across time and space. Pages 116-144 in Body size: linking pattern and process across space, time and taxonomy (Smith, F.A. and S.K. Lyons, editors), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Smith, F.A., S.K. Lyons, K. Jones, & B.A. Maurer. 2013. The influence of flight on patterns of body size diversity and heritability. Pages 187-205 in Body size:  linking pattern and process across space, time and taxonomy (Smith, F.A. and S.K. Lyons, editors), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Smith, F.A. & S.K. Lyons. 2013. The way forward. Pages 235-246 in Body size: linking pattern and process across space, time and taxonomy (Smith, F.A. and S.K. Lyons, editors), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Zuo, W., F.A. Smith, & E.L. Charnov. 2013. A life history approach to the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction. American Naturalist 182:524-531.
• Okie, J.G., R.M. Sibly, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.J. Saarinen, F.A. Smith, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, & M.D. Uhen. 2013. Rates and limits of body size evolution: the effects of allometry, production and lifestyle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280(1764):20131007. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1007.

2012
• Payne, J.L., F.A. Smith, M. Kowalewski, R.A. Krause, A.G. Boyer, C.R. McClain, S. Finnegan, P.M. Novack-Gottshall, & L. Sheble. 2012. A lack of attribution: closing the citation gap through a reform of citation and indexing practices. Taxon 61:xx-xx.
• Murray, I.W. & F.A. Smith. 2012. Estimating the influence of the thermal environment on activity patterns of the desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) using temperature chronologies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 90:1171-1180.
• Smith, F.A. & A. Boyer. 2012. Losing time? Incorporating a deeper temporal perspective into modern ecology. Frontiers in Biogeography 4.1:25-38.
• Pardi, M.I. and &. Smith. 2012. Paleoecology in an era of climate change: how the past can provide insights into the future. Pages 93-116 in Palaeontology in Ecology and Conservation (Julien Louys, editor), Springer-Verlag, New York.
• Evans, A.R., D. Jones, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, S.K.M. Ernest, E.M.G. Fitzgerald, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.G. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R.M. Sibly, F.A. Smith, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, & M. D. Uhen. 2012. The maximum rate of mammal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 23:36-58.
• Anderson-Teixeira, K.J., F.A. Smith and S.K.M. Ernest. 2012. Climate Change. Pages 280-292 in J.H. Brown, A. Kodric Brown, & R.M. Sibly, editors. Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach, Wiley-Blackwell, New York.
• Smith, F.A. 2012. Some Like It Hot: Temperature and Mammal Body Size. Science 335:924-925.

2011
• Crawford D.L., J.W. Dragoo, F.A. Smith, & A.N. Chavez. Diversification within the Mexican vole (Microtus mexicanus) and the role of post-Pleistocene climate change. 2011. Western Great Basin Naturalist 71:176-194.
• Smith, F.A. & S.K. Lyons. 2011. How big should a mammal be? A macroecological look at mammalian body size over space and time. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 366:2364-2378.
• Smith, F.A., S.M. Elliott, & S.K. Lyons. 2011. Methane emissions from extinct megafauna: a reply to Brook and Severinghaus. Nature Geosciences 4:1-2.
• Kowalewski, M., J.L. Payne, F.A. Smith, S.C. Wang, D.W. McShea, S. Xiao, P.M. Novack-Gottshall, C.R. McClain, R.A. Krause, Jr., A.G. Boyer, S. Finnegan, S.K. Lyons, J.A. Stempien, J. Alroy, & P.A. Spaeth. 2011. The Geozoic supereon. Palaios 26:251-255.
• Smith, F.A. 2011. Here be biogeographers. Bioscience 61:76-77.

2010
• Payne, J.L., A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, S. Finnegan, M. Kowalewski, R.A. Krause, Jr., S.K. Lyons, C.R. McClain, D.W. McShea, P.M. Novack-Gottshall, F.A. Smith, P. Spaeth, J.A. Stempien, & S.C. Wang. 2010. The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective. Photosynthesis Research 107:37-57 (published online September 2010; DOI: 10.1007/s11120-010-9593-1).
• Smith, F.A., A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, T. Dyan, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.K. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R. Sibly, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, & M. Uhen. 2010. The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. Science 330:1216-1219.
• Lyons, S.K. & F.A. Smith. 2010. Using a macroecological approach to study geographic range, abundance and body size in the fossil record. Quantitative methods for studying paleobiology. (J. Alroy and G. Hunt eds.) The Paleonotolgoical Society Papers 16:1-26.
• Smith, F.A., S.M. Elliott, & S.K. Lyons. 2010. Methane emissions from extinct megafauna. Nature Geosciences 3:374-375 + online supplement. (Advance online publication: www.nature.com/naturegeoscience, DOI:10.1038/ngeo877; 23 May 2010.
• Smith, F.A., M.J. Hamilton, & J.H. Brown. 2010. On the size selectivity of late Pleistocene extinctions: a mini forum based on Polishchuk. Evolutionary Ecology Research 12:403-412.

2009
• Harding, L. & F.A. Smith. 2009. Mustela or Neovison? Evidence for the taxonomic status of the American mink and a distinct biogeographic radiation of American weasels. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52:632-642.
• Payne, J.L, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, S. Finnegan, M. Kowalewski, R.A. Krause, Jr., S.K. Lyons, C.R. McClain, D.W. McShea, P.M. Novack-Gottshall, F.A. Smith, J.A. Stempien, & S.C. Wang. 2009. Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 106:24-27.

2008
• Smith, F.A., D.L. Crawford, L.E. Harding, H.M. Lease, I.W. Murray, A. Raniszewski, & K.M. Youberg. 2008. A tale of two species: extirpation and range expansion during the late Quaternary in an extreme environment. Global and Planetary Change 65:122-133.
• Smith, F.A., S.K. Lyons, S.K.M. Ernest & J.H. Brown. 2008. Macroecology: more than the division of food and space among species on continents. Progress in Physical Geography 32:115-138.
• MacDonald, G.M., K.D. Bennett, S.T. Jackson, L. Parducci, F.A. Smith, J.P. Smol, and K.J. Willis. 2008. Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers. Progress in Physical Geography 32:139-172.
• Smith, F.A. 2008. Body size, energetics and evolution. Pages 477-482 in Encyclopedia of Ecology (Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath, Editors-in-Chief), Volume 1, Elsevier, Oxford.

2006
• Smith, F.A. 2006. On the lack of women in academic science. Science 314:592.
• Donlan, C.J., J. Berger, C.E. Bock, J.H. Bock, D.A. Burney, J.A. Estes, D. Foreman, P.S. Martin, G.W. Roemer, F.A. Smith, M.E. Soulé, & H.W. Greene. 2006. Pleistocene Rewilding: an optimistic agenda for twenty-first century conservation. American Naturalist 168:660-681.
• Smith, F.A. and J.L. Betancourt. 2006. Predicting woodrat (Neotoma) responses to anthropogenic warming from studies of the palaeomidden record. Journal of Biogeography 33:2061-2076.
• Millien, V., S.K. Lyons, L. Olson, F.A. Smith, A.B. Wilson & Y. Yom-Tov. Ecotypic variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting the rules. 2006. Ecology Letters 9:853-869.

2005
• Donlan, C.J., J. Berger, C.E. Bock, J.H. Bock, D.A. Burney, J.A. Estes, D. Foreman, P.S. Martin, G.W. Roemer, F.A. Smith, M.E. Soulé, & H.W. Greene. 2005. Rewilding North America. Nature 436:913-914.

2004
• Lyons, S.K., F.A. Smith, E.P. White, & J.H. Brown. 2004. Was a 'hyperdisease' responsible for the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction? Ecology Letters 7:859-868.
• Maurer, B.A., J.H. Brown, T. Dayan, B.J. Enquist, S.K.M. Ernest, E.A. Hadly, J.P. Haskell, D. Jablonski, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, S.K. Lyons, K.J. Niklas, W.P. Porter, K. Roy, F.A. Smith, B. Tiffney, & M.R. Willig. 2004. Similarities in body size distributions of small-bodied flying vertebrates. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6:783-797.
• Smith, F.A., J.H. Brown, J.P. Haskell, S.K. Lyons, J. Alroy, E.L. Charnov, T. Dayan, B.J. Enquist, S.K.M. Ernest, E.A. Hadly, D. Jablonski, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, P.A. Marquet, B.A. Maurer, K.J. Niklas, W.P. Porter, K. Roy, B. Tiffney, & M.R. Willig. 2004. Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time. American Naturalist 163:672-691.
• Lyons, S.K., F.A. Smith and J.H. Brown. 2004. Of mice, mastodon and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6:339-358.

2003
• Ernest, S.K.M., B.J. Enquist, J.H. Brown, E.L. Charnov, J.F. Gillooly, V.M. Savage, E.P. White, F.A. Smith, E.A. Hadly, J.P. Haskell, S.K. Lyons, B.A. Maurer, K.J. Niklas, & B. Tiffney. 2003. Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use.  Ecology Letters 6:990-995.
• Smith, F.A., S.K. Lyons, S.K.M. Ernest, K.E. Jones, D.M. Kaufman, T. Dayan, P.A. Marquet, J.H. Brown & J.P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology  84:3402.
• Choi, Y., S. Elliott, I.J. Simpson, D.R. Blake, J.J. Colman, M.K. Dubey, S. Meinardi, F.S. Rowland, T. Shirai, & F.A. Smith. 2003. Survey of whole air data from the second airborne biomass burning and lightning experiment using principal component analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research—Atmospheres 108:4163-4183.
• Elliott, S., D.R. Blake, N.J. Blake, M.K. Dubey, F.S. Rowland, B.C Sive, & F.A. Smith. 2003. BIBLE A whole-air sampling as a window on Asian biogeochemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research— Atmospheres 108:8407-8421.
• Smith, F.A. & J.L. Betancourt. 2003. The effect of late Holocene temperature fluctuations on the evolution and ecology of Neotoma (woodrats) in Idaho and northwestern Utah. Quaternary Research 59:160-171.

2002
• Smith, F.A., S. Elliott, D.R. Blake, & F.S. Rowland. 2002. Spatiotemporal variation of methane and other trace hydrocarbon concentrations in the Valley of Mexico. Environmental Science and Policy 5:449-461.
• Damuth, J. D., M. Fortelius, P. Andrews, C. Badgley, E.A. Hadly, S. Hixon, C. Janis, R. H. Madden, K. Reed, F. A. Smith, J. Theodor, J. A. Van Dam, B. Van Valkenburgh, & L. Werdelin. 2002. Reconstructing mean annual precipitation based on mammalian dental morphology and local species richness. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3) (suppl):48A.
• Smith, F.A. 2002. On her own terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the rise of science in the American West. Journal of Mammalogy 83:626-628.
• Decker, E.H., S. Elliott, & F.A. Smith. 2002. Megacities and the environment. The Scientific World Journal 2:374-386.

2001
• Smith, F.A. & E.L. Charnov. 2001. Fitness trade-offs select for semelparous reproduction in an extreme environment. Evolutionary Ecology Research 3: 595-602.

2000
• Elliott, S., D.R. Blake, J.C. Coman, M.K. Dubey, F.S. Rowland, T. Shirai, & F.A. Smith. 2000. Multivariate analysis of whole air hydrocarbon data: a principal components factor reduction applied to BIBLE B aircraft samples. Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Report in the LAUR series.
• Elliott, S., E.H. Decker, F.A. Smith, D.R. Blake, I.J. Simpson, & F.S. Rowland. 2000. Cities in the earth system. Environmental Science and Policy 3:157-160.
• Smith, F.A., M.D. Matocq, K.F. Melendez, A.M. Ditto, & P.A. Kelly. 2000. How isolated are Pleistocene refugia? Results from a study on a relict woodrat population from the Mojave Desert, California. Journal of Biogeography 27:483-500.
• Decker, E.H., S. Elliott, F.A. Smith, D.R. Blake & F.S. Rowland. 2000. Energy and meterial flow through the urban ecosystem. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 25:685-740. 
• Elliott, S., D.R. Blake, J.E. Bossert, J.C. Chow, J.L.A. Colina, J.C. Doran, M. Dubey, R.A. Duce, S. Edgerton, J.D. Fast, J.S. Gaffrey, M. Gupta, F. Guzman, P.A. Matson, M.J. Prather, W. Riley, F.S. Rowland, M.E. Ruiz, A.G. Russell, F.A. Smith, G.E. Streit & J.G. Watson. 2000. Mexico City and the biogeochemistry of global urbanization. Environmental Science and Policy 3:145-156.

1998
• Smith, F.A., H. Browning & U.L. Shepherd. 1998. The influence of climatic change on the body mass of woodrats (Neotoma albigula) in an arid region of New Mexico, USA. Ecography 21:140-148.
• Smith, F.A., J.H. Brown and T.J. Valone. 1998. Path modeling methods and ecological interactions: a response to Grace and Pugesek. American Naturalist 152:160-161.
• Smith, F.A. & J.L. Betancourt. 1998. Response of bushy-tailed woodrats (Neotoma cinerea) to late Quaternary climatic change in the Colorado Plateau. Quaternary Research 47:1-11.

1997
• Smith, F.A. 1997. Neotoma cinerea. Mammalian Species 564:1-8.
• Smith, F.A., J.H. Brown & T.J. Valone. 1997. Path analysis:  a critical evaluation using long-term experimental data. American Naturalist 149:29-42.

1996
• Smith, F.A. & D.M. Kaufman. 1996. A Quantitative analysis of the contributions of female mammalogists from 1919 to 1994. Journal of Mammalogy 77:613-628.
• Smith, F.A. & J.H. Brown. 1996. The changing role of women in North American mammalogy.  Journal of Mammalogy 77:609-613.
• Smith, F.A. 1996. Den characteristics and survivorship of woodrats (Neotoma lepida) in the eastern Mojave Desert. Southwestern Naturalist 41:366-372.

1995
• Smith, F.A. 1995. Scaling of digestive efficiency with body mass in Neotoma. Functional Ecology 9:299-305.
• Smith, F.A., J.L. Betancourt & J.H. Brown. 1995. Evolution of body size in the woodrat over the past 25,000 years of climate change. Science 270:2012-2014.

1993
• Smith, F.A., B.T. Bestelmeyer & M. Strong. 1993. Anthropogenic extinction of the endemic woodrat, Neotoma bunkeri Burt.  Biodiversity Letters 1:149-155.

1992
• Monroe, J., W.D. Wagner, J. Carr and F.A. Smith. 1992. Multi-species habitat conservation plan for Southwestern Riverside County, California. Riverside County Habitat Conservation Agency and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 275 pages. Received a Presidentail Award for Excellence.
• Justice, K.E. & F.A. Smith. 1992. A model of dietary fiber utilization by small mammalian herbivores, with empirical results for Neotoma. American Naturalist 139:398-416.
• Smith, F.A. 1992. Evolution of body size among woodrats from Baja California, Mexico.  Functional Ecology 6:265-273.

1991
• Smith, F.A. December 1991. Nutritional ecology and body size in Neotoma populations. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Irvine.