The Scandinavian Ice Sheet against the Atlantic Ocean: how the Scandinavian Ice Sheet affected European small mammal assemblage during the Greenland stadial GS-2.1

Puzachenko, A.Y.; Markova, A.K.

Авторы: Puzachenko A.Yu, Markova A.K.
Журнал: Quaternary Science Reviews
Том: 305
Номер: 1
Год издания: 2023
Издательство: Elsevier BV
Местоположение издательства: Netherlands
Номер статьи: 108013
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108013
Аннотация: In the Late Pleistocene the formation of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet (SIS) caused a wide periglacial zone in Europe. The effects of environmental conditions in the periglacial zone on small mammal assemblages have not yet been studied in detail on a European scale during maximum extension of the SIS. In this study, the impact of the SIS on the qualitative/quantitative composition of European small mammal local faunas (LFs) was studied for the GS-2.1 (~22.9e17.48 a b2k, ﬁnal of the Last Glacial Maximum). We analysed 55 LFs between 0oE and 55oE and between 45oN and 55oN and proved that the variations in their compositions contained information about spatial variation in environmental/geographical vari- ables, including distance from the putative edge of the SIS and the shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean and, to a lesser extent, the altitudes of localities. Based on various criteria, we concluded that the impact of the SIS on the spatial variability of compositions of LSs was not as signiﬁcant as the effects of air masses over the Atlantic Ocean, but more important than altitude above sea level. It was most probable that the impact of the SIS, considered independently of the Atlantic Ocean, contributed in part to a latitudinal gradient of the mean annual temperature formation, while the Atlantic Ocean air masses predominantly shaped a sectoral west-east gradient of temperature and precipitation. We compared the geographic patterns of compositions of species belonging to LFs in the past and present and concluded that the effect of the Atlantic air masses is the main physical factor that forms the spatial pattern in modern European small mammals and that a similar impact prevailed during the GS-2.1. Qualitative and quantitative differences in the distribution of small mammal species in LFs and in diversity indices between the GS-2.1 and the present time were investigated. We concluded that it is possible that in the GS-2.1 narrow/ fragmented ranges dominated, whereas in the Holocene the proportion of small mammal species with wide ranges and intrazonal species increased signiﬁcantly in the composition of faunas. Additional evidence is provided to support the hypothesis of the existence of the “Carpathian refuge”. In the GS-2.1 we attributed the lack of correlation between species richness with mean annual temperature and precip- itation. A spatial mosaic of glacial/cryptic refuges conceals a positive correlation between species rich- ness and distance from the putative edge of the SIS. In addition, we described the responses of some common and indicator species to variations in environmental variables.
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