Cenogram

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According to Darin Croft,

"A cenogram is a graphical representation of the body size distribution of non-volant, non-carnivorous mammals from a single locality. It is constructed by plotting the natural log of the body mass for each species versus the rank order of body mass for that species. In Recent mammal communities, cenogram shape tends to correlate with habitat. Cenograms of closed habitats tend to show no gaps in the body size distribution whereas cenograms of more open habitats tend to show a gap among medium-sized species (500-8000 g). The slope for large mammals (> 8 kg) tends to be greater in more arid environments."

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[edit] Notes

1. ^ Croft, David. "Body Size Distributions Of Middle Cenozoic South American Mammal Faunas." 1999. The Field Museum and The University of Chicago. <http://dcpaleo.org/Research/Publications/CroftBolivia1999.pdf>