Origin and causes of the mammoth steppe: A story of cloud cover, woolly mammal tooth pits, buckles, and inside-out Beringia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 549-574

  Dale Guthrie, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HOLOCENE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CAMELIDAE; MAMMALIA; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 0035136088     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(00)00099-8     Document Type: Article

References (101)

1. Holocene vegetational history of Alaska
2. Accumulation sequence of Chinese loess and climatic records of Greenland ice core during the last 130 ky
3. Vegetation history of northcentral Alaska: A mapped summary of late-Quaternary pollen data
4. A framework for interpreting paleoclimatic variations in eastern Beringia
5. Long-term variations of daily insolation and Quaternary climate changes
6. Correlations between climate records from North-Atlantic sediments and Greenland ice
7. Browsing-woody plant interactions during boreal forest plant succession
8. A Pleistocene sand sea on the Alaskan Arctic coastal plain
9. High-resolution multi-proxy climate records from Chinese loess: Evidence for rapid climatic changes over the last 75 kyr
10. The environment of the Bering Land Bridge
11. Plain thinking on Bering Land Bridge Vegetation and Mammoth Populations
12. Low-Down on the Land Bridge
13. The Beringian Ecosystem
14. Arctic Steppe-Tundra: A Yukon perspective
15. Quaternary history and the stability of forest communities
16. Sensitivity of Asian and African climate to variations in seasonal insolation, glacial ice cover, sea surface temperature, and Asian orography
17. Interactions between woody plants and browsing mammals mediated by secondary metabolites
18. A coupled environmental system formed about 2.5 Ma in East Asia
19. A tundra-steppe transition of Kathul Mountain, Alaska, USA
20. Late Quaternary beetle faunas of Southwestern Alaska: Evidence of a refugium for mesic and hydrophilous species
21. Life and times of the Bering Land Bridge
22. Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to the changing atmosphere: A resource-based approach
23. Late Quaternary mammalian faunas and paleoenvironments of the southwestern plains of the United States
24. Climate instability during the last interglacial period recorded in the GRIP ice core
25. Paleoecology of the large mammal community in interior Alaska during the late Pleistocene
26. Mammals of the Mammoth Steppe as Paleoenvironmental indicators
27. Alaskan megabucks, megabulls, and megarams: The issue of Pleistocene gigantism
28. Mosaics, allelochemics, and nutrients: An ecological theory of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions
29. Woolly arguments against the Mammoth Steppe - A new look at the Palynological data
30. Late Pleistocene vertebrates and other fossils from Epiguruk, Northwestern Alaska
31. Dark clouds promise brighter future for climate models
32. Rapid climate variability in the North Pacific Ocean during the past 95,000 years
33. Pleistocene periglacial eolian deposits in southwestern Alaska: Sedimentary facies and depositional processes
34. Late-Pleistocene eolian sand sheets in Alaska
35. Late Quaternary lacustrine pollen records from Southwestern Beringia
36. The effects of mountains on the general circulation of atmosphere as identified by numerical experiments
37. Wisconsin environment of interior Alaska: Pollen and macrofossil analyses of 27 m core from Isabella Basin (Fairbanks, Alaska)
38. East Beringia during late Wisconsin time: A review of the biotic evidence
39. Grazing as an optimization process: Grass-ungulate relationships in the Serengeti
40. The role of Arctic Refugia in the evolution of the Arctic vascular flora - A Beringian perspective
41. Pleistocene extinctions: The pivotal role of megaherbivores
42. Climatic effects of the late Neogene tectonism and volcanism
43. Moose, microbes, and the boreal forest
44. Direct observations of excess solar absorption by clouds
45. Correlation between climate events in the North-Atlantic and China during last glaciation
46. Components of the Ice Age circulation
47. Forcing of Late Cenozoic northern hemisphere climate by plateau uplift in southern Asia and the American West
48. Diatom evidence on Wisconsin and Holocene events in the Bering Sea
49. Late Pleistocene vegetation of eastern Beringia - Pollen analysis of dated alluvium
50. The Full-Glacial ecosystem of Beringia
51. The Late Pleistocene steppe tundra in Beringia - A critique
52. Oxygen isotopes, ice volume and sea-level
53. Fossil saiga in northeastern Siberia and Alaska
54. On the history of the mammal fauna of Beringia
55. Actualism and disconformism in studies of ecology of Pleistocene mammals
56. How much solar radiation do clouds absorb?
57. Evolution of lowland landscapes in northeastern Asia during late Quaternary times
58. Paleolithic landscapes of Europe and environs, 150,000-25,000 years ago: An overview
59. Element cycling in taiga forests: State-factor control
60. Taiga ecosystems interior Alaska
61. Radiocarbon ages of mammoths in northern Eurasia: Implications for population development in the late Quaternary environment
62. Paleoecology of the mammoth fauna in the Eurasian Arctic
63. Road dust and its environmental impact on Alaskan taiga and tundra
64. Grande Pile peat bog: A continuous pollen record for the last 140,000 years
65. The vascular flora of St. Lawrence Island with special reference to floristic zonation in the Arctic regions
66. Phytogeography of the North American Arctic
67. Steppe communities in the Chukotka tundra and Pleistocene "tundra-steppe"
68. Relicts of the Xerophyte vegetation in Beringia in Northeastern Asia
69. Steppe-tundra transition: A herbivoredriven biome shift at the end of the Pleistocene