Fig. 1.

Ecological structure of 98 extant, small-bodied mammalian communities sampled around the world. (A) The locations of the 98 extant, small-bodied mammalian communities and five extinct mammaliaform communities sampled in this study. (B) EDisp and ERich of the extant, small-bodied mammalian communities plotted against latitude. (C) DF1 scores from the habitat-openness DFA plotted against latitude. (D) Plot of DF1 vs. DF2 scores from the climate-type DFA and scores of the extinct communities projected onto the plot. (E) Composite plots of ecospace occupation of the extant, small-bodied mammalian communities from the four climate types, showing all occupied eco-cells for the communities from that climate type. See Fig. 2D for more detailed key to ecospace axes. MSL, Messel.