180,000 years of climate change in Europe: avifaunal responses and vegetation implications.

Providing an underutilized source of information for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, birds are rarely used to infer paleoenvironments despite their well-known ecology and extensive Quaternary fossil record. Here, we use the avian fossil record to investigate how Western Palearctic bird assemblag...

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Main Authors: Sandra Ravnsbæk Holm, Jens-Christian Svenning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3981757?pdf=render