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Climate change of anthropogenic origin is affecting Earth’s biodiversity and therefore ecosystems and their services. High latitude ecosystems are even more impacted than the rest of Northern Hemisphere because of the amplified polar warming. Still, it is challenging to predict the dynamics of high latitude ecosystems because of complex interaction between abiotic and biotic components. As the past is the key to the future, the interpretation of past ecological changes to better understand ongoing processes is possible. In the Quaternary, the Pleistocene experienced several glacial and interglacial stages that affected past ecosystems. During the last Glacial, the Pleistocene steppe-tundra was covering most of unglaciated northern hemisphere and disappeared in parallel to the megafauna’s extinction at the transition to the Holocene (~11,700 years ago). The origin of the steppe-tundra decline is not well understood and knowledge on the mechanisms, which caused shifts in past communities and ecosystems, is of high priority as they are ...
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Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2023
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Courtin, Jérémy Biodiversity changes in Siberia between quaternary glacial and interglacial stages Potsdam, 2023
Language:
English
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URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-595847
URL:
https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-59584
Author information:
Liebner, Susanne
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