2021
DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.08.425884
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Late Pleistocene palaeoecology and phylogeography of woolly rhinoceroses

Abstract: The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was a cold-adapted herbivore, widely distributed from western Europe to north-east Siberia during the Late Pleistocene. Previous studies associate the extinction of the species ~14,000 years before present to climatic and vegetational changes, and suggest that later survival of populations in north-east Siberia may relate to the later persistence of open vegetation in that region. Here, we analyzed carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotopes and mitochondri… Show more

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“…The woolly rhinoceros was a cold-adapted megaherbivore, which was abundant from western Europe to north-east Siberia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene (Kahlke and Lacombat, 2008 ). This species was predominantly grazing, probably resorting to browsing only due to seasonal vegetation restrictions (Kahlke and Lacombat, 2008 ;Rey-Iglesia et al, 2021 ;Stefaniak et al, 2021 ). The reasons underlying the extinction of this species at ca 14 ka BP are not entirely clear, but it is largely attributed to sudden climate warming and subsequent Table 1.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The woolly rhinoceros was a cold-adapted megaherbivore, which was abundant from western Europe to north-east Siberia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene (Kahlke and Lacombat, 2008 ). This species was predominantly grazing, probably resorting to browsing only due to seasonal vegetation restrictions (Kahlke and Lacombat, 2008 ;Rey-Iglesia et al, 2021 ;Stefaniak et al, 2021 ). The reasons underlying the extinction of this species at ca 14 ka BP are not entirely clear, but it is largely attributed to sudden climate warming and subsequent Table 1.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The use of Bayesian bivariate ellipses to understand distributions of stable isotopes is increasingly common (e.g., Pingram et al, 2020;Rey-Iglesia et al, 2021) and utilizes known data points to project unknown distributions within the sampling context. Therefore, statistical treatment of the data include standard ellipses calculated to the 2-σ (95%) level, box and whiskers plots performed in ggplot2 in RStudio 2022.07.1 (Build 554).…”
Section: Stable Isotope Reconstruction In Soilsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The woolly rhino is considered a grazer, and herbaceous vegetation usually shows a lower nitrogen isotopic signature than shrub vegetation (Bocherens, 2015). However, a recent review of isotopic records of this species across Eurasia (Rey-Iglesia et al, 2021) shows great variation in isotopic values both geographically and temporally, which is interpreted as reflecting the variety of environments and climatic conditions, and the ecological flexibility of this species. However, the dating of SAN-3, 43.000 cal BP, does not coincide with a cold pulse, so it cannot be ruled out that it is the narrow-nosed rhino, whose last records in southern Europe are from Grotta Muracci (Italy), 42.054-40.804 yrs cal BP (Pandolfi et al, 2017).…”
Section: Stable Isotopes Diet and Palaeoenvironmentmentioning
confidence: 99%