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| 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. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 76 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 14% |
| Japan | 9 | 12% |
| 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 | 40 | 53% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 291 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| 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 | 278 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 50 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 49 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 48 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 34 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 7% |
| Other | 45 | 15% |
| Unknown | 46 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 132 | 45% |
| 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% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 342. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2024.
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#98,574
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#1,581
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#351
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#13
of 3,571 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,913,612 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 226,031 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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