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2010
Habitats of relict terrestrial snails in southern Siberia: lessons for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments of full-glacial Europe
HORSÁK, Michal, Milan CHYTRÝ, Beata POKRYSZKO, Jiří DANIHELKA, Nikolai ERMAKOV et. al.Basic information
Original name
Habitats of relict terrestrial snails in southern Siberia: lessons for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments of full-glacial Europe
Name in Czech
Biotopy reliktních terestrických měkkýšů na jižní Sibiři: poučení pro rekonstrukci evropského přírodního prostředí ve vrcholném glaciálu
Authors
HORSÁK, Michal (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Beata POKRYSZKO (616 Poland), Jiří DANIHELKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Nikolai ERMAKOV (643 Russian Federation), Michal HÁJEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Petra HÁJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Kateřina KINTROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martin KOČÍ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Svatava KUBEŠOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Pavel LUSTYK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zdenka OTÝPKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Barbora PELÁNKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Milan VALACHOVIČ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Journal of Biogeography, 2010, 0305-0270
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 4.273
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/10:00049392
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
UT WoS
000279936700004
Keywords in English
Altai Mountains; climate; Gastropoda; habitat preferences; index species; loess steppe; palaeoreconstruction; Pleistocene analogue; Russia; vegetation
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 20/4/2012 09:36, Ing. Andrea Mikešková
V originále
Aim Shells of fossil molluscs are important for palaeoecological reconstructions. However, habitat requirements of snail species typical of central European full-glacial loess sediments are poorly known because most of them became very rare or extinct in Europe. The recent discovery of an almost complete extant assemblage of such species in mountainous regions of central Asia enables more precise characterization of their habitats, which may significantly improve reconstructions of Pleistocene environments. Location Altai Mountains, Russia. Methods Terrestrial snail assemblages, vegetation composition and selected environmental variables were recorded at 118 sites along a gradient of climatic continentality in the Russian Altai. Habitat characteristics of sites where the species typical of full-glacial period occurred were described using a classification tree. Results Seven of the eight species that are typical of central European full-glacial loess sediments were found in the study area. They were confined to cool areas with January mean temperatures below -17 C, but occurred mainly in sheltered habitats with a warmer microclimate such as scrub or open woodland. Pupilla loessica and Vallonia tenuilabris had the broadest habitat range, occurring from woodland to dry steppe. Unexpectedly, Columella columella, Pupilla alpicola, Vertigo genesii, V. parcedentata and V. pseudosubstriata were mainly found in wooded fens and shrubby tundra rather than in open steppe. Most of these seven species were recorded in base-rich wooded fens. Very dry open steppe habitats usually supported no snails. Main conclusions Habitat ranges of the studied snails in the Altai indicate that the full-glacial landscapes of central European lowlands that harboured these species were not completely dominated by open and dry loess steppe. Most probably they contained a significant component of shrubby vegetation, patches of wet habitats, and probably also areas of woodland at sites with favourable mesoclimate.
In Czech
Vazba plžů, kteří jsou charakterističtí pro středoevropská sprašová souvrství, na současné biotopy na Altaji ukazuje, že středoevropskou krajinu v období vrcholného glaciálu nekryly výhradně suché sprašové stepi. Velmi pravděpodobně zde existovaly i křoviny, mokřadní biotopy a na místech s vhodným mezoklimatem pravděpodobně i ostrůvky lesní vegetace.
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