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Cryptic no more: soil macrofossils uncover Pleistocene forest microrefugia within a periglacial desert.
The New phytologist - 1 Nov 2014
de Lafontaine Guillaume, Amasifuen Guerra Carlos Alberto, Ducousso Alexis, Petit Rémy J
Abstract excerpt
Despite their critical importance for understanding the local effects of global climate change on biodiversity, glacial microrefugia are not well studied because they are difficult to detect by using classical palaeoecological or population genetics approaches. We used soil macrofossil charcoal analysis to uncover the presence of cryptic glacial refugia for European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and other tree species...
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