Revising the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) refugia history of the last glacial period with extended pollen and macrofossil evidence

P Krebs, GB Pezzatti, G Beffa, W Tinner… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent advances in palaeoecology provide growing evidence of complex spatio-temporal
patterns of tree species survival during the last glaciation. The distribution of Sweet chestnut …

[HTML][HTML] Late-glacial and Holocene shifts in the mountain landscapes of the Cantabrian range (northern Spain) in response to changing climate, fire occurrence and …

A van der Horst, W Tinner, FJ Ezquerra, E Gobet… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract A new well-dated (18 14 C dates on short-lived terrestrial plant macrofossils, 210
Pb and 137 Cs dating) fine-resolution palaeoecological sequence (pollen, coprophilous …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

A range‐wide postglacial history of Swiss stone pine based on molecular markers and palaeoecological evidence

F Gugerli, S Brodbeck, B Lendvay… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Knowing a species' response to historical climate shifts helps understanding its
perspectives under global warming. We infer the hitherto unresolved postglacial history of …

Long-term responses of Mediterranean mountain forests to climate change, fire and human activities in the Northern Apennines (Italy)

C Morales-Molino, M Steffen, S Samartin… - Ecosystems, 2021 - Springer
Fagus sylvatica (beech) dominates the montane forests of the Apennines and builds old-
growth high-conservation value stands. However, recent severe drought-induced diebacks …

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

J Hošek, P Pokorný, D Storch, J Kvaček, J Havig… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
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 …

In both directions: Expansions of European land snails to the north and south from glacial refugia

O Korábek, T Adamcová, M Proćków… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Were postglacial recolonizations facilitated by persistence close to the colonized areas
rather than by dispersal ability allowing for colonization from distant sources? This question …

[HTML][HTML] Climate impacts on vegetation and fire dynamics since the last deglaciation at Moossee (Switzerland)

F Rey, E Gobet, C Schwörer, A Hafner… - Climate of the …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract Since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; end ca. 19 000 cal BP) central European
plant communities have been shaped by changing climatic and anthropogenic disturbances …

Youngest Iberian Holocene volcanic eruptions and paleoenvironmental evolution of a barrier-paleolake in the Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Spain)

E Iriarte, J Revelles, W Finsinger… - The …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Volcanic eruptions are key drivers of climate variability, with complex environmental
consequences at regional and local scales that are rarely documented in high-resolution …

Spatial genetic structure of the endemic alpine plant Salix serpillifolia: genetic swamping on nunataks due to secondary colonization?

P Kosiński, K Sękiewicz, Ł Walas, A Boratyński… - Alpine Botany, 2019 - Springer
Pleistocene climatic changes affected the current distribution and genetic structure of alpine
plants. Some refugial areas for the high elevation species have been proposed in the Alps …