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Migration of the Antarctic Polar Front through the mid-Pleistocene transition: evidence and climatic implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Antarctic Polar Front is an important biogeochemical divider in the Southern Ocean. Laminated diatom mat deposits record episodes of massive flux of the diatom Thalassiothrix antarctica beneath the Antarctic Polar Front and provide a marker for ...
Naveira Garabato, A.C.   +7 more
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Deglaciation of the North Cascade Range, Washington and British Columbia, from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

open access: yesCuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 2017
Glacial retreat from the North Cascade Range after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) at approximately 21 ka until the end of the Pleistocene at 11.6 ka was complex and included both continental and alpine glaciers.
J.L. Riedel
doaj   +1 more source

Phylogeography of weakfish Cynoscion guatucupa (Perciformes: Sciaenidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2011
The genetic structure of populations/species was established during the Quaternary glaciations. Over the last 250 ka (Pleistocene), the South American marine biogeographic history recorded three main glaciations: the most extensive one between 140 and ...
Pedro J. Fernández Iriarte   +4 more
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The skeleton of Congruus kitcheneri, a semiarboreal kangaroo from the Pleistocene of southern Australia [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2021
The macropodine kangaroo, Wallabia kitcheneri, was first described in 1989 from a Pleistocene deposit within Mammoth Cave, southwestern Australia, on the basis of a few partial dentaries and maxilla fragments. Here, we recognize W.
Natalie M. Warburton   +1 more
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Phenotypic plasticity and development of cold-season insects (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) and their response to climatic change

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2003
Cold-season beetles, Catops nigricans Spence, Choleva agilis Illiger and Choleva elongata Payk., i.e. beetles which start to lay eggs in autumn, which are active during the winter in the adult stage and develop from the egg stage to the adult stage ...
Werner TOPP
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution, systematics and phylogeography of pleistocene horses in the new world: a molecular perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The rich fossil record of horses has made them a classic example of evolutionary processes. However, while the overall picture of equid evolution is well known, the details are surprisingly poorly understood, especially for the later Pliocene and ...
Weinstock, J.   +80 more
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Glaciation of Siberia and the problem of massive ice beddings

open access: yesЛëд и снег, 2017
As a result of many years of the author’s studies of glaciers and ground ices, a great amount of factual material has been collected for a purpose to analyze a possibility of burying the glaciers in the permafrost zone and to esti‑ mate a time of their ...
V. S. Sheinkman
doaj   +1 more source

Uppermost Pleistocene shrews (Mammalia, Soricidae) from Vaskapu Cave (N-Hungary) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Three shrew species (Sorex araneus LINNAEUS1758, Sorex minutus LlNNAEUS1766 and Sorex alpinus SHINZ1837) were found in the fossiliferous sediments of Vaskapu Cave, near Felsötárkány.
Mészáros, L. Gy., Mészáros, L. Gy
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Monsoon intensification in East Asia triggered the evolution of its flora

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2022
IntroductionEast Asia (EA), which falls within the region of the Asian monsoon that is composed of the East Asia monsoon (EAM) and the Indian monsoon (IM), is known for its high species diversity and endemism.
Jun-Wei Ye   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clay mineralogical evidence of Quaternary paleoclimate in Northern Morocco [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
The paleoclimate during the Pleistocene period can be deduced from the study of the composition of clay minerals in the marine terraces of the Tangier region, Morocco.
Tichli Soufiane   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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