The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe.
International audience Taxonomic identification remains a challenge for fossil small mammals, in particular in the case of morphologically close species. These identifications are especially essential in the case of species with different ecological tolerances for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimati...
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ftunivbourgogne:oai:HAL:hal-03983135v1 2024-05-19T07:36:19+00:00 The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe. Arbez, Louis Hadravová, Tereza Royer, Aurélien Montuire, Sophie Horáček, Ivan Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS) Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Department of Zoology Univerzita Karlova Praha, Česká republika = Charles University Prague, Czech Republic (UK) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Project HARCGLOB (AAP 2020 Région Bourgogne Franche-Comté). 2023-03 https://u-bourgogne.hal.science/hal-03983135 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107974 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107974 hal-03983135 https://u-bourgogne.hal.science/hal-03983135 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107974 ISSN: 0277-3791 EISSN: 1873-457X Quaternary Science Reviews https://u-bourgogne.hal.science/hal-03983135 Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023, 303, pp.107974. ⟨10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107974⟩ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379123000227 Geometric morphometrics Pleistocene Central Europe Rodents Paleoclimate Paleoenvironment Bioclimatic analysis method [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2023 ftunivbourgogne https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107974 2024-04-24T23:57:43Z International audience Taxonomic identification remains a challenge for fossil small mammals, in particular in the case of morphologically close species. These identifications are especially essential in the case of species with different ecological tolerances for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic inferences. Among rodents which depend on peculiar environments, the wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) only inhabits boreal forests and is a bryophage specialist burrowing under specific moss covers. In the fossil record, its identification has long been problematic and Myopus has often been mixed up with the tundra lemming (Lemmus sp.), a rodent inhabiting the arctic open landscape. By applying geometric morphometrics on fossil Lemmini specimens from Late Pleistocene Central Europe, this paper demonstrates the occurrence of Myopus at least during Marine Isotopic Stage 3 and Last Glacial Maximum in the region. Its presence has a strong impact on paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions as demonstrated by the application of the Bioclimatic analysis method suggesting a colder climate as well as the identification of a taiga biozone that remained undetected if this species is not included. This work definitively attests the essential contribution of geometric morphometric analyses to a better understanding of small mammal communities. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic taiga Tundra Université de Bourgogne (UB): HAL Quaternary Science Reviews 303 107974 |
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Geometric morphometrics Pleistocene Central Europe Rodents Paleoclimate Paleoenvironment Bioclimatic analysis method [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology Arbez, Louis Hadravová, Tereza Royer, Aurélien Montuire, Sophie Horáček, Ivan The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe. |
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International audience Taxonomic identification remains a challenge for fossil small mammals, in particular in the case of morphologically close species. These identifications are especially essential in the case of species with different ecological tolerances for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic inferences. Among rodents which depend on peculiar environments, the wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) only inhabits boreal forests and is a bryophage specialist burrowing under specific moss covers. In the fossil record, its identification has long been problematic and Myopus has often been mixed up with the tundra lemming (Lemmus sp.), a rodent inhabiting the arctic open landscape. By applying geometric morphometrics on fossil Lemmini specimens from Late Pleistocene Central Europe, this paper demonstrates the occurrence of Myopus at least during Marine Isotopic Stage 3 and Last Glacial Maximum in the region. Its presence has a strong impact on paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions as demonstrated by the application of the Bioclimatic analysis method suggesting a colder climate as well as the identification of a taiga biozone that remained undetected if this species is not included. This work definitively attests the essential contribution of geometric morphometric analyses to a better understanding of small mammal communities. |
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Biogéosciences UMR 6282 (BGS) Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Department of Zoology Univerzita Karlova Praha, Česká republika = Charles University Prague, Czech Republic (UK) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Project HARCGLOB (AAP 2020 Région Bourgogne Franche-Comté). |
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The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe. |
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The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe. |
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The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe. |
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The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe. |
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The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe. |
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wood lemming and the development of taiga in late pleistocene central europe. |
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