Early postglacial recolonisation, refugial dynamics and the origin of a major biodiversity hotspot. A case study from the Mala Fatra mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/18:10386054 RIV/00216208:11620/18:10386054 RIV/00025798:_____/18:00000002

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683617735592" target="_blank" >10.1177/0959683617735592</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Early postglacial recolonisation, refugial dynamics and the origin of a major biodiversity hotspot. A case study from the Mala Fatra mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia

Original language description

While general trends in Central European postglacial recolonisation dynamics are relatively well known, we often lack studies on intermediate (meta-population, landscape) scales. Such studies are needed to increase our understanding of, for example, the location of refugia; emergence of endemism, rates and trajectories of postglacial migrations; and anthropogenic landscape changes. Here, we focused on the outer Western Carpathian mountain chain Mala Fatra, which is currently characterised by high biodiversity and endemism and is thus considered a likely refugium of the Last Glacial period for the temperate biota of Eastern-Central Europe. We used molluscs and vascular plants as reference taxonomic groups and supported palaeoenvironmental interpretations of their (sub)fossil assemblages using high-resolution geochemical data. Generally, postglacial biotic successions from the study region fit the standard developmental pattern well in Middle and Eastern European uplands. Nevertheless, we found important biogeographically based peculiarities. In total, more than 50 species per (sub)fossil community at the reference site Vala, including 30 woodland species and 11 Carpathian endemites, make site of the highest known Holocene mollusc species diversity in Europe. Our palaeoecological analysis of this long-term biodiversity hotspot suggests that the Western Carpathians were likely an important source of the postglacial recolonisation of Central Europe by forest biota and, at the same time, an area of refugium-based endemism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Holocene

ISSN

0959-6836

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

583-594

UT code for WoS article

000429957000007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045063166