Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00094862:_____/19:N0000126
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1666374" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1666374</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1666374" target="_blank" >10.1080/08912963.2019.1666374</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry
Original language description
Muskox Ovibos moschatus is a Pleistocene relic, which has survived only in North America and Greenland. During the Pleistocene, it was widely distributed in Eurasia and North America. To evaluate its morphological variability through time and space, we conducted an extensive morphometric study of 217 Praeovibos and Ovibos skull remains. The analyses showed that the skulls grew progressively wider from Praeovibos sp. to the Pleistocene O. moschatus, while from the Pleistocene to the recent O. moschatus, the facial regions of the skull turned narrower and shorter. We also noticed significant geographic differences between the various Pleistocene Ovibos crania. Siberian skulls were usually larger than those from Western and Central Europe. Eastern Europeanmuskoxen also exceeded in size those from the other regions of Europe. The large size of Late Pleistocene muskoxen from regions located in more continental climatic regimes was probably associated with the presence of more suitable food resources in steppe-tundra settings. Consistently, radiocarbon-dated records of this species are more numerous in colder periods, when the steppe-tundra was widely spread, and less abundant in warmer periods.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Historical Biology
ISSN
0891-2963
e-ISSN
1029-2381
Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
62-77
UT code for WoS article
000632822400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85074019454