West-european malacofauna from loess deposits of the Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial : Compilation and preliminary analysis of the database
Terrestrial molluscs are useful organisms for the reconstruction of glacial palaeoenvironments thanks to their high ecological sensitivity and to their richness in loess deposits. A database of molluscan records has thus been compiled from Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial loess deposits for the wester...
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ftopenedition:oai:revues.org:quaternaire/1532 2023-05-15T16:37:37+02:00 West-european malacofauna from loess deposits of the Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial : Compilation and preliminary analysis of the database Moine, Olivier 2005-03-01 http://journals.openedition.org/quaternaire/1532 fr fre Association française pour l’étude du quaternaire Quaternaire info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1142-2904 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1965-0795 urn:doi:10.4000/quaternaire.1532 http://journals.openedition.org/quaternaire/1532 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess loess malacology palaeoenvironment Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial Western and Central Europe database Europe de l’ouest et centrale lœss malacologie paléoenvironnement Pléniglaciaire supérieur weichselien banque de données info:eu-repo/semantics/article article 2005 ftopenedition https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.1532 2020-08-02T00:17:56Z Terrestrial molluscs are useful organisms for the reconstruction of glacial palaeoenvironments thanks to their high ecological sensitivity and to their richness in loess deposits. A database of molluscan records has thus been compiled from Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial loess deposits for the western side of the European Great Plain to complement periglacial data and to alleviate the lack of both pollen and other biological proxy records. For each site, the sample age has been checked precisely. The composition of the database reveals an under-exploited potential of terrestrial molluscs as a palaeoenvironmental proxy. The composition of the malacofauna allowed the discrimination of a homogeneous cold, humid and poorly vegetated domain around the Channel and in Belgium, associated with ice-rich permafrost, opposed to a heterogeneous and more vegetated domain, located in Germany, associated with ice-poor permafrost. The analysis of new molluscan records at high resolution is now required to define precisely environmental domains, to study the evolution of their distributions through time and to provide millennial timescale environmental reconstructions for the loess domain of the European Great Plain. Les mollusques terrestres sont des organismes utiles dans la reconstitution des paléoenvironnements glaciaires grâce à leur forte sensibilité écologique et à leur richesse dans les dépôts de lœss. Une banque d’assemblages malacologiques a donc été compilée pour les dépôts lœssiques du Pléniglaciaire supérieur weichselien de la partie ouest de la Grande Plaine européenne pour compléter les données périglaciaires disponibles et pallier le manque d’enregistrements polliniques ainsi que d’autres indicateurs paléoenvironnementaux biologiques. Pour chaque site, l’âge des échantillons a été vérifié précisément. La composition de la banque de données révèle un potentiel sous-exploité de la malacofaune terrestre en tant qu’indicateur paléoenvironnemental. La composition des assemblages a permis la distinction d’un domaine ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice permafrost OpenEdition Quaternaire vol. 19/1 11 29 |
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Terrestrial molluscs are useful organisms for the reconstruction of glacial palaeoenvironments thanks to their high ecological sensitivity and to their richness in loess deposits. A database of molluscan records has thus been compiled from Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial loess deposits for the western side of the European Great Plain to complement periglacial data and to alleviate the lack of both pollen and other biological proxy records. For each site, the sample age has been checked precisely. The composition of the database reveals an under-exploited potential of terrestrial molluscs as a palaeoenvironmental proxy. The composition of the malacofauna allowed the discrimination of a homogeneous cold, humid and poorly vegetated domain around the Channel and in Belgium, associated with ice-rich permafrost, opposed to a heterogeneous and more vegetated domain, located in Germany, associated with ice-poor permafrost. The analysis of new molluscan records at high resolution is now required to define precisely environmental domains, to study the evolution of their distributions through time and to provide millennial timescale environmental reconstructions for the loess domain of the European Great Plain. Les mollusques terrestres sont des organismes utiles dans la reconstitution des paléoenvironnements glaciaires grâce à leur forte sensibilité écologique et à leur richesse dans les dépôts de lœss. Une banque d’assemblages malacologiques a donc été compilée pour les dépôts lœssiques du Pléniglaciaire supérieur weichselien de la partie ouest de la Grande Plaine européenne pour compléter les données périglaciaires disponibles et pallier le manque d’enregistrements polliniques ainsi que d’autres indicateurs paléoenvironnementaux biologiques. Pour chaque site, l’âge des échantillons a été vérifié précisément. La composition de la banque de données révèle un potentiel sous-exploité de la malacofaune terrestre en tant qu’indicateur paléoenvironnemental. La composition des assemblages a permis la distinction d’un domaine ... |
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West-european malacofauna from loess deposits of the Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial : Compilation and preliminary analysis of the database |
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West-european malacofauna from loess deposits of the Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial : Compilation and preliminary analysis of the database |
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West-european malacofauna from loess deposits of the Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial : Compilation and preliminary analysis of the database |
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West-european malacofauna from loess deposits of the Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial : Compilation and preliminary analysis of the database |
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West-european malacofauna from loess deposits of the Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial : Compilation and preliminary analysis of the database |
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west-european malacofauna from loess deposits of the weichselian upper pleniglacial : compilation and preliminary analysis of the database |
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