Tara M. Smiley
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Indiana University
Publications
53
Citations
766
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
19
Publishing since 2008
Tara M. Smiley studies how landscapes, climate, and geology shape the evolution and diversity of mammals over deep time. Her work combines fossil records, chemical signatures in teeth (stable isotopes and preserved proteins), and computer simulations to connect environmental change, such as mountain building and climate shifts, to patterns of biodiversity in animals like rodents. She also examines how modern factors like urbanization and disease affect present-day mammal and bird populations.
Publication activity has been steady over the past decade with year-to-year fluctuations, averaging about 4.4 papers per year over the last five years and reaching a peak in 2025.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- Phenoclimatic drivers of White-Footed Mouse ( <i>Peromyscus leucopus</i> ) population abundance in the Long Island Central Pine Barrens
Journal of Mammalogy · 2026
- Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift
Nature · 2025
- Linking Diversification Patterns to Paleoenvironmental Processes in Eastern African Rodents
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025
- Drivers of exposure to West Nile virus by American robins (<em>Turdus migratorius</em>) in the Midwest
DRYAD · 2025
- 29 million years of diverse mammalian enamel proteomes from Turkana in the East African Rift System
2024
- Tectonic extension and paleoelevation influence mammalian diversity dynamics in the Basin and Range Province of western North America
Science Advances · 2024
- MIOCENE LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION AND FAUNAL EVOLUTION IN KENYA’S TURKANA BASIN: A REPORT FROM THE TURKANA MIOCENE PROJECT
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2024
- Coupled influence of tectonics, climate, and surface processes on landscape evolution in southwestern North America
Nature Communications · 2022
- DECIPHERING THE LANDSCAPE HISTORY IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA SINCE THE LATE EOCENE USING THE COUPLED INFLUENCE OF TECTONICS, CLIMATE, AND SURFACE PROCESSES
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2022
- Seven rules for simulations in paleobiology
Paleobiology · 2020
- Multi‐dimensional biodiversity hotspots and the future of taxonomic, ecological and phylogenetic diversity: A case study of North American rodents
Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2020
- DIVERSITY IN A CHANGING LANDSCAPE: COUPLING TECTONIC, CLIMATIC, AND BIOTIC PROCESSES IN THE BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE OVER THE NEOGENE
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2020
- Isotopic records of climate seasonality in equid teeth
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2019
- The middle Miocene in southern California: Mammals, environments, and tectonics of the Barstow, Crowder, and Cajon Valley formations—Field Trip of the North American Paleontological Convention, June 22, 2019
PaleoBios · 2019
- Hydrological change due to deforestation and urbanization on the West Coast of the United States: Evidence from stable isotopes of small mammals
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts · 2019
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- AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts×6
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×3
- Paleobiology×2
- AGUFM×2
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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.
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