Bird remains from Obazowa – zoogeographical and evolutionary remarks
Abstract. The majority of 112 bird taxa identified in Obazowa Cave and Obazowa 2 be-long to the recent breeding fauna of the Carpathians. Besides these there are many species that breed in the extreme arctic as well as in the boreal zones, those with disjunct distribu-tions in arctic and mountain ar...
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2002
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.521.3426 http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc_v/pdf/45/18.pdf |
Summary: | Abstract. The majority of 112 bird taxa identified in Obazowa Cave and Obazowa 2 be-long to the recent breeding fauna of the Carpathians. Besides these there are many species that breed in the extreme arctic as well as in the boreal zones, those with disjunct distribu-tions in arctic and mountain areas, breeding in high mountains only, and “southern ” spe-cies (breeding now mainly in southern Europe: Balkans, Mediterranean countries). |
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