Mammal diversity during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Eastern Europe

作     者：Andrei Yurievich PUZACHENKO Anastasia Konstantinovna MARKOVA 

作者机构：Institute of GeographyRussian Academy of SciencesMoscowRussia 

出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第9卷第4期

页      面：461-470页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含：古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 

基　　金：The work was performed with the financial support from RFBR(grant№10-05-00111).We would like to thank our reviewers for their very constructive remarks.We are very grateful to Maria Rita Palombo for her sug­gestion to contribute to this volume 

主　　题：Eastern Europe Holocene climatic optimum mammal diversity Pleistocene-Holocene transition Pleistocene Last Glacial Maximum 

摘      要：Fossil record data on the mammal diversity and species richness are of importance for the reconstruction of the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene *** Eastern Europe,the transformations during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition consisted mainly in changes in zonal structure and local fauna composition(Markova&Kolfschoten 2008).We investigated the species richness and the an­alogues of theα,βdiversity indexes(in the sense of Whittaker 1972)of large and medium size mammals for 13 climate-stratigraphic units dating to the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene,from the Hasselo Stadial(44-39 kBP)to the Subatlantic period and the present *** biological diversity of the Last Glacial Maximum(LGM)and the Holocene thermal optimum was investigated in more detail using information about all mamma­lian taxa(PALEOFAUNA database;Markova 1995).One of our results show that theα,βdiversity values show only a negative correlation with the temperature conditions during the Late Pleistocene,the period that is char­acterized by the so-called‘Mammoth Fauna’*** the Holocene faunas the diversity indexes are nearly independent from physical conditions;theαdiversity index decreased and theβdiversity index *** relatively lowαdiversity and highβdiversity indexes for the present-day faunas are referred to the decrease of the population number of some forest species in historical time and the increase of the dominance of unspecial­ized species or the species connected with intra-zonal *** study shows furthermore the occurrence of several East European‘centers’with a high mammal diversity,which are relatively stable during the Pleis­tocene-Holocene *** orientation of the boundaries between the large geographical mammal assem­blages depended,particularly in the northwestern part of Eastern Europe,on the expansion of the Scandinavian ice sheet.