Ice age unfrozen: severe effect of the last interglacial, not glacial, climate change on East Asian avifauna

Ice age unfrozen: severe effect of the last interglacial, not glacial, climate change on East Asian avifauna

Abstract Background The glacial-interglacial cycles in the Pleistocene caused repeated range expansion and contraction of species in several regions in the world. However, it remains uncertain whether such climate oscillations had similar impact on East Asian biota, despite its widely recognized imp...

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Main Authors: Feng Dong, Chih-Ming Hung, Xin-Lei Li, Jian-Yun Gao, Qiang Zhang, Fei Wu, Fu-Min Lei, Shou-Hsien Li, Xiao-Jun Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Coalescent simulations
Ecological niche modeling
East Asian birds
Pleistocene climate change
Last interglacial period
Last glacial maximum
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1100-2

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