| Title |
Insights into the Ecology and Evolutionary Success of Crocodilians Revealed through Bite-Force and Tooth-Pressure Experimentation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0031781 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gregory M. Erickson, Paul M. Gignac, Scott J. Steppan, A. Kristopher Lappin, Kent A. Vliet, John D. Brueggen, Brian D. Inouye, David Kledzik, Grahame J. W. Webb |
| Abstract |
Crocodilians have dominated predatory niches at the water-land interface for over 85 million years. Like their ancestors, living species show substantial variation in their jaw proportions, dental form and body size. These differences are often assumed to reflect anatomical specialization related to feeding and niche occupation, but quantified data are scant. How these factors relate to biomechanical performance during feeding and their relevance to crocodilian evolutionary success are not known. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 11 | 14% |
| Japan | 8 | 11% |
| Canada | 3 | 4% |
| Australia | 3 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 4% |
| Argentina | 1 | 1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 41 | 54% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 66 | 87% |
| Scientists | 5 | 7% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 4% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 1 | 1% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Argentina | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 280 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 50 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 49 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 48 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 34 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 6% |
| Other | 47 | 16% |
| Unknown | 46 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 134 | 46% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 53 | 18% |
| Environmental Science | 17 | 6% |
| Engineering | 9 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 20 | 7% |
| Unknown | 53 | 18% |