Dispersal events of the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) in Central Europe in response to the climatic fluctuations in MIS 2 and the early part of MIS 1

Nadachowski, Adam; Lipecki, Grzegorz; Ratajczak, Urszula; Stefaniak, Krzysztof; Wojtal, Piotr

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“…Previously published overviews suggest that saiga was also present in Western and Central Europe in MIS 3 (Stewart, 2007; Markova et al, 2010). However, this evidence was not recently confirmed by direct radiocarbon dating (Nadachowski et al, 2016). During MIS 2 and early part of MIS 1 (the Late Glacial), saiga appeared in Europe in three immigration waves (Fig.…”

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“…The oldest one was probably restricted only to Central Europe (e.g. Poland and Czech Republic) (Nadachowski et al, 2016) and was temporally limited to GI-2, i.e. a short warming period between 23.3 and 22.9 ka BP (Rasmussen et al, 2014).…”

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“…During this time, Saiga tatarica was present in the whole Europe north of the Carpathians, Alps and Pyrenees and reached Aquitaine Basin and Gascony in SW France. The comparison of still limited number of direct dates suggests rather migrations of saiga from western Europe to its eastern refugial areas because the dates from France (Langlais et al, 2015) are older than those from Germany and Poland (Nadachowski et al 2016; Fig. 5).…”

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“…5) due to the development of vegetation cover not suitable for this herbivore. However, during cooler episodes of the Late Glacial, between Bølling and Allerød (GI-1d, former Older Dryas) and within the Allerød (GI-1c 2 ) (Rasmussen et al, 2014) Saiga tatarica probably returned to Central Europe, but this reimmigration was restricted only to the area north of the Carpathians (Nadachowski et al, 2016 and Fig. 5).…”

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“… A –a plot of direct radiocarbon dates of saiga antelope in Europe (Langlais et al, 2015 and Nadachowski et al, 2016) alongside the NGRIP GICC05 δ 18 O ice core record, calibrated using program OxCal v. 4.2 (Ramsey, 2009). GS–Greenland Stadials, GI–Greenland Interstadials.…”

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21Climate changes that occurred during the Late Pleistocene have profound effects on the distribution of 22 many plant and animal species and influenced the formation of contemporary faunas and floras of 23 Europe. The course and mechanisms of responses of species to the past climate changes are now 24 being intensively studied by the use of direct radiocarbon dating and genetic analyses of fossil 25 remains. Here, we review the advances in understanding these processes by the example of four 26 mammal species: woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), cave bear (Ursus spelaeus s. l.), saiga 27 antelope (Saiga tatarica) and collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx ssp.). The cases discussed here as well 28 as others show that the migrations, range shifts and local extinctions were the main responses to 29 climate changes and that the dynamics of these climate driven processes were much more profound 30 2 than it was previously thought. Each species reacted by its individual manner, which depended on its 31 biology and adaptation abilities to the changing environment and climate conditions. The most severe 32 changes in European ecosystems that affected the largest number of species took place around 33-33 31 ka BP, during the Last Glacial Maximum 22-19 ka BP and the Late Glacial warming 15-13 ka BP. 34 35 37 38 84 2008; Palkopoulou et al., 2013). The divergence of lineages I and II was previously estimated to ca. 1 85 Ma ago (Debruyne et al., 2008; Gilbert and Drautz, 2008), however, most recent estimations suggest 86 much younger date about 300 ka BP (Palkopoulou et al., 2013). Coalescent simulations suggested 87 that actual split of three mammoth populations took place around 200 ka BP and was followed by a 88 demographic expansion that started around 121 ka BP (Palkopoulou et al., 2013). This expansion 89 coincides broadly with the end of Eemian Interstadial, which suggests that mammoths survived this 90 4 warm period confined to refugial areas and expanded as climate got cooler at the beginning of 91 Weichselian glaciation (Palkopoulou et al., 2013). Surprisingly, this was not supported by the analyses 92 of the whole paleogenomes, which indicated a much earlier expansion ca. 280 ka years ago and the 93 maximum effective population size during Eemian (Palkopoulou et al., 2015).94 95 96 Fig. 1. Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). A -Bayesian phylogeny of Holarctic woolly 97 mammoths based on mtDNA cytochrome b sequences. The tree is a chronogram where branch 98 lengths denote time elapsed since divergence and the position of tips corresponds to calibrated 99 radiocarbon age of samples; B -distribution of paleontological sites with woolly mammoth 100 remains radiocarbon-dated to the indicated periods. Colours indicate mitochondrial DNA lineages 101 (modified after Palkopoulou et al., 2013). 103Despite, the ambiguities in the early history of mammoth populations, ancient DNA revealed also two 104 more recent population turnovers. In the Eemian Interglacial and Early Weichselian, woolly mammoths 105 that belonged to clad...

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Climate fluctuations during the Last Glacial Period between 115,000 and 11,500 years ago (Lokrantz & Sohlenius, 2006) played an important role in shaping the current species composition, distribution, and genetic diversity of mammals in Europe. During glaciations, the ranges of cold sensitive species were limited to refugial areas located in the Balkan, the Iberian and the Apennine Peninsulas (Hewitt, 2004;Taberlet et al., 1998) and south-eastern part of the continent (the Black Sea region and the Caucasus Mts.; Markova & Puzachenko, 2019). Contribution of a given refugium into postglacial recolonization processes varied a lot among species such as, for example, red deer Cervus elaphus (Niedziałkowska, Doan, et al., 2021), wild boar Sus scrofa (Niedziałkowska, Tarnowska, et al., 2021), or common vole Microtus arvalis (Stojak et al., 2015). Cold-adapted species such as, for example, reindeer Rangifer tarandus (Sommer et al., 2014), saiga antelope Saiga tatarica (Nadachowski et al., 2016), or arctic fox Alopex lagopus (Dalén et al., 2007), thrived in the glacial stages, expanded their ranges southward, and during the onset of interglacial they underwent massive, large-scale extinctions. Species of mammals that have very broad biogeographic niche (from the Mediterranean to the boreal zone) had more diverse response to geological time-scale pulsation of climate, most likely with several glacial refugia located at both lower and higher latitudes, where subpopulations diverged into different lineages and could have developed adaptations to different climate, habitat, and food-related conditions. Examples of such species include the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus (Tarnowska et al.,

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Dispersal events of the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) in Central Europe in response to the climatic fluctuations in MIS 2 and the early part of MIS 1

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Impact of climatic changes in the Late Pleistocene on migrations and extinctions of mammals in Europe: four case studies

Impact of climatic changes in the Late Pleistocene on migrations and extinctions of mammals in Europe: four case studies

Pan‐European phylogeography of the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)

Late Pleistocene and Holocene History of Mammals in Europe

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