The history of formation of recent small mammal communities in the Nether-Polar Urals

The results of studies on small mammal bone assemblages from seven cave-type sites on the Shchugor and Kozhim rivers are presented. Four stages in the development of small mammal fauna in the Nether-Polar Urals are described, which correspond to the Allerod, Younger Dryas, Early Holocene, and Subatl...

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Published in:Russian Journal of Ecology
Main Authors: Kryazheva, I. V., Ponomarev, D. V., van Kolfschoten, T., van der Plicht, H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
small mammals
Pleistocene
Holocene
Nether-Polar Urals
ICE CORE CHRONOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES
RUSSIA
VEGETATION
CLIMATE
EUROPE
BP
ice core
Tundra
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11370/b5e360a4-cdde-424a-967c-e57b49ad6f69
https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/b5e360a4-cdde-424a-967c-e57b49ad6f69
https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413612050098
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Summary:The results of studies on small mammal bone assemblages from seven cave-type sites on the Shchugor and Kozhim rivers are presented. Four stages in the development of small mammal fauna in the Nether-Polar Urals are described, which correspond to the Allerod, Younger Dryas, Early Holocene, and Subatlantic periods. The moderately cryohydrophilic fauna of the Allerod was replaced by an atypically "mild" xerophylic community in the Younger Dryas. In the Early Holocene, its structure still included considerable proportions of tundra species, which, along with forest species, were also found in the subfossil assemblage from the Subatlantic. It is shown that the transformation of the small mammal fauna in the above sites had a specific pattern, compared to that in other regions of northeastern Europe and to the dynamics of the natural environment and climate.

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