The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F23%3A10471569" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/23:10471569 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=XxwONfTr_d" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=XxwONfTr_d</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107974" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107974</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The wood lemming and the development of taiga in Late Pleistocene Central Europe
Original language description
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.(c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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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
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Quarternary Science Reviews
ISSN
0277-3791
e-ISSN
1873-457X
Volume of the periodical
303
Issue of the periodical within the volume
March
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
107974
UT code for WoS article
000935416400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85149986097