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Small brains predisposed Late Quaternary mammals to extinction [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The Late Quaternary witnessed a dramatic wave of large mammal extinctions, that are usually attributed to either human hunting or climatic change. We hypothesized that the large mammals that survived the extinctions might have been endowed with larger ...
Jacob Dembitzer +3 more
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Late Quaternary vegetation-climate feedbacks [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2009 Feedbacks between vegetation and other components of the climate system are discussed with respect to their influence on climate dynamics during the late Quaternary, i.e., the last glacial-interglacial cycles.
M. Claussen*
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CLIMATE PREDICTORS OF LATE QUATERNARY EXTINCTIONS [PDF]
Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 2010 Between 50,000 and 3,000 years before present (BP) 65% of mammal genera weighing over 44 kg went extinct, together with a lower proportion of small mammals. Why species went extinct in such large numbers is hotly debated. One of the arguments proposes that climate changes underlie Late Quaternary extinctions, but global quantitative evidence for this ...
David Nogués-Bravo +2 more
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Late Quaternary climate change explains soil fungal community composition rather than fungal richness in forest ecosystems [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The dramatic climate fluctuations of the late Quaternary have influenced the diversity and composition of macroorganism communities, but how they structure belowground microbial communities is less well known.
Niu‐Niu Ji +10 more
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Late Quaternary range shifts of marcescent oaks unveil the dynamics of a major biogeographic transition in southern Europe [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 Marcescent forests are ecotones distributed across southern Europe that host increased levels of biodiversity but their persistence is threatened by global change. Here we study the range dynamics of these forests in the Iberian Peninsula (IP) during the
Carlos Vila-Viçosa +6 more
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Late Quaternary Activity: Kouma Fault
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The Kouma Fault, located at the northern foot of the Mangshan Mountain in Luoyang City, Henan Province, China, is an active fault newly discovered in the field seismic geological survey.
Weimin He +5 more
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Dizhi lixue xuebao, 2021 This paper aims to ascertain the depositional paleoenvironment since the late Quaternary in the central Hebei plain. We measured the 20.74 m-deep Xibozhang section and analyzed the collected samples for grain size and optically stimulated luminescence ...
LIU Zhirong, XUE Huaiyu, WANG Changsheng
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Geosciences, 2021 The seabed of the Pontine Archipelago (Tyrrhenian Sea) insular shelf is peculiar as it is characterized by a mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sedimentation. In order to reconstruct the Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental evolution of the Pontine Archipelago,
Virgilio Frezza +6 more
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023 Eustatic sea level changes and vertical tectonic movements are producing uplifted paleoshorelines. Along subduction zones, uplifted terraces are used to study fault activities and, overall, allow to interpret the tectonic history of plate convergence ...
Kosmas Pavlopoulos +7 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Fluvial terraces in the source of the Yellow River suggest that Ruoergai Basin was connected with the lower reach after ∼10 ka, much younger than the uplift chronology of the Tibetan Plateau.
Lingfan Shi +8 more
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