Ecological Structure of Recent and Last Glacial Mammalian Faunas in Northern Eurasia: The Case of Altai-Sayan Refugium

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0085056&representation=PDF" target="_blank" >http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0085056&representation=PDF</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085056" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0085056</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ecological Structure of Recent and Last Glacial Mammalian Faunas in Northern Eurasia: The Case of Altai-Sayan Refugium

Original language description

Pleistocene mammalian communities display unique features which differ from present-day faunas. The paleocommunities were characterized by the extraordinarily large body size of herbivores and predators and by their unique structure consisting of speciesnow inhabiting geographically and ecologically distinct natural zones. These features were probably the result of the unique environmental conditions of ice age ecosystems. To analyze the ecological structure of Last Glacial and Recent mammal communities we classified the species into biome and trophic-size categories, using Principal Component analysis. We found a marked similarity in ecological structure between Recent eastern Altai-Sayan mammalian assemblages and comparable Pleistocene faunas. The composition of Last Glacial and Recent eastern Altai-Sayan assemblages were characterized by the occurrence of large herbivore and predator species associated with steppe, desert and alpine biomes. These three modern biomes harbor most of

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP504%2F11%2F0454" target="_blank" >GAP504/11/0454: Biodiversity change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: modern analogues in relict ecosystems of Siberia</a><br>

Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS One

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000329922500038

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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