Evolution of Central European regional mammal assemblages between the late Middle Pleistocene and the Holocene (MIS7–MIS1)

Puzachenko, A. Yu.; Маркова, А.К.; Pawłowska, Kamilla

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.009

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“…As with the pollen record, the presence of temperate adapted large vertebrate taxa within the glacial landscape of Western Europe also suggests the existence of temperate "micro-refugia" (Stewart and Lister, 2001) , consistent with suggestions that temperate arboreal taxa were not entirely extirpated from the region during the LGM (Magri, 2010). Further east, mammal assemblages indicate generalized loss of forest components in the East European Plain (Puzachenko et al, 2021) which is consistent with our data indicating low forest cover in this region. In other areas, evidence of the prevailing land cover at the LGM comes from studies of small vertebrate communities, which have a closer affinity to the prevailing environment than large vertebrates (López-García and Blain, 2020) that have the propensity to migrate large distances, often on a seasonal basis.…”

Section: Vegetation Coversupporting

confidence: 89%

The climate and vegetation of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East during the Last Glacial Maximum (21,000 years BP) based on pollen data

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Kaplan³

et al. 2022

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Abstract. Pollen data represents one of the most widely available and spatially-resolved sources of information about the past land cover and climate of the Last Glacial Maximum (21,000 years BP). Previous pollen data compilations for Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East however have been limited by small numbers of sites and poor dating control. Here we present a new compilation of pollen data from the region that improves on both the number of sites (63) and the quality of the chronological control. Data has been sourced from both public data archives and published (digitized) diagrams. Analysis is presented based on a standardized pollen taxonomy and sum, with maps shown for the major pollen taxa, biomes and total arboreal pollen, as well as quantitative reconstructions of forest cover and winter, summer and annual temperatures and precipitation. The reconstructions are based on the modern analogue technique (MAT) with a modern calibration dataset taken from the latest Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (~8000 samples). A site-by-site comparison of MAT and Inverse Modelling methods shows little or no significant difference between the methods for the LGM, indicating that no-modern-analogue and low CO2 conditions during the LGM do not appear to have had a major effect on MAT transfer function performance. Previous pollen-based climate reconstructions based on MAT show a much colder and drier climate for the LGM than both Inverse Modelling and climate model simulations, but our new results suggest much greater agreement. Differences between our latest MAT reconstruction and those in earlier studies can be largely attributed to bias in the small modern calibration dataset previously used. We also find that quantitative forest cover reconstructions show more forest than that previously suggested by biome reconstructions, but less forest than that suggested by simple percentage arboreal pollen, although uncertainties remain large. Overall, we find that LGM climatic cooling/drying was significantly greater in winter than in summer, but with large site to site variance that emphasizes the importance of topography and other local factors in controlling the climate and vegetation of the LGM.

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Section: Vegetation Coversupporting

confidence: 89%