Forest snail faunas from Crimea (Ukraine), an isolated and
incomplete Pleistocene refugium

J 2013

Forest snail faunas from Crimea (Ukraine), an isolated and incomplete Pleistocene refugium

CAMERON, Robert A. D., Beata M. POKRYSZKO and Michal HORSÁK

Basic information

Original name

Forest snail faunas from Crimea (Ukraine), an isolated and incomplete Pleistocene refugium

Authors

CAMERON, Robert A. D. (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Beata M. POKRYSZKO (616 Poland) and Michal HORSÁK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Biological Journal of Linnean Society, 2013, 0024-4066

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.535

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/13:00068945

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bij.12040

UT WoS

000318809500014

Keywords in English

climate change; dispersal; geographical distribution; species richness

Abstract

V originále

The land snail faunas of 26 forest sites and two open rocky sites in the Crimean Mountains were sampled in 2011. Of the 40 species found within the forests (about half the known fauna of Crimea as a whole), 28 were species with wide western Palaearctic distributions, and only eight were endemic to Crimea. While there were significant differences in the faunas of different sampling areas, these seemed to be a consequence of ecological differences among them rather than a product of geographical isolation and differentiation. Endemic species were large, and not entirely restricted to forest; known endemics not found in these forests are mainly typical of more open habitats. There is no local radiation of small species living in damp forest litter, as with Leiostyla species in the Transcaucasian forest refugium, and families such as the Clausiliidae with many endemic forest species in both Transcaucasia and the Carpathians are sparsely represented. The one endemic clausiliid genus, Mentissa, occurs in open as well as in wooded habitats. The present faunas are rather poor considering the soil conditions and climate, and the forests hold widespread species often associated with open habitats elsewhere. While there is evidence that these mountains provided a refuge for many animals and plants during glacial episodes further north, the forest snail fauna suggests that full forest cover did not survive throughout the Pleistocene. Rather, the present fauna contains endemics that survived in other habitats and widespread species with good powers of passive dispersal.

Citovat

CAMERON, Robert A. D., Beata M. POKRYSZKO and Michal HORSÁK. Forest snail faunas from Crimea (Ukraine), an isolated and incomplete Pleistocene refugium. Biological Journal of Linnean Society. 2013, vol. 109, No 2, p. 424-433. ISSN 0024-4066. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bij.12040.

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CAMERON, Robert A. D., Beata M. POKRYSZKO and Michal HORSÁK. Forest snail faunas from Crimea (Ukraine), an isolated and incomplete Pleistocene refugium. \textit{Biological Journal of Linnean Society}. 2013, vol.~109, No~2, p.~424-433. ISSN~0024-4066. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bij.12040.

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