The end of the Last Glacial Maximum in the Iberian Peninsula characterized by the small-mammal assemblages ...

• Main Authors: Bañuls-Cardona, S., López-García, J.M., Blain, H.-A., Lozano-Fernández, I., Cuenca-Bescós, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Chordata; Animalia; bats; bat; Microtus arvalis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13474658; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13474658

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) This paper presents a palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic approach to the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the Iberian Peninsula on the basis of the small-mammal assemblages (insectivores, bats and rodents). The LGM is an important period in our climate history defined by the maximum extension of ice sheets between ca. 22 and 19 ka BP. In the Mediterranean region the LGM is characterized by humid conditions, which allow for the development of arboreal vegetation. The small-mammal remains described in this study were recovered from four different sites within the Iberian Peninsula: El Mirón cave (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria), Valdavara-1 (Becerreá, Lugo), El Portalón (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos), and Sala de las Chimeneas (Maltravieso, Cáceres). We found in these sites a non-analogue association represented by species associated with mid-European climatic conditions, such as the voles Chionomys nivalis, Microtus arvalis, Microtus agrestis ...