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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hošek, Jan
• Pokorný, Petr
• Storch, David
• Kvaček, Jiří
• Havig, Jeff
• Novák, Jan
• Hájková, Petra
• Jamrichová, Eva
• Brengman, Latisha
• Radoměřský, Tomáš
• Křížek, Marek
• Magna, Tomáš
• Rapprich, Vladislav
• Laufek, František
• Hamilton, Trinity
• Pack, Andreas
• Di Rocco, Tommaso
• Horáček, Ivan

Titel

Hot spring oases in the periglacial desert as the Last Glacial Maximum refugia for temperate trees in Central Europe

Ist Teil von

• Science advances, 2024-05, Vol.10 (22), p.eado6611

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Northern glacial refugia are a hotly debated concept. The idea that many temperate organisms survived the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ~26.5 to 19 thousand years) in several sites across central and northern Europe stems from phylogeographic analyses, yet direct fossil evidence has thus far been missing. Here, we present the first unequivocal proof that thermophilous trees such as oak ( ), linden ( ), and common ash ( ) survived the LGM in Central Europe. The persistence of the refugium was promoted by a steady influx of hydrothermal waters that locally maintained a humid and warm microclimate. We reconstructed the geological and palaeohydrological factors responsible for the emergence of hot springs during the LGM and argue that refugia of this type, allowing the long-term survival and rapid post-LGM dispersal of temperate elements, were not exceptional in the European periglacial zone.