Habitats of relict terrestrial snails in southern Siberia: Lessons for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments of full-glacial Europe

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1450-1462

  Horsák, Michal ^a   Chytrý, Milan ^a   Pokryszko, Beata M ^b   Danihelka, Jiří ^a,c   Ermakov, Nikolai ^d   Hájek, Michal ^a,c   Hájková, Petra ^a,c   Kintrová, Kateřina ^a   Kočí, Martin ^a   Kubešová, Svatava ^a,e   Lustyk, Pavel ^a   Otýpková, Zdenka ^a   Pelánková, Barbora ^a,c   Valachovič, Milan ^f  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Altai Mountains; Climate; Gastropoda; Habitat preferences; Index species; Loess steppe; Palaeoreconstruction; Pleistocene analogue; Russia; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; INDEX METHOD; MICROCLIMATE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RANGE SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; RELICT SPECIES; SHELL; SNAIL; STEPPE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; SIBERIA;

COLUMELLA COLUMELLA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PUPILLA (GASTROPOD); VALLONIA; VERTIGO (GASTROPOD);

EID: 77954768642     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02280.x     Document Type: Article

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