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Pleistocene range shifts, refugia and the origin of widespread species in western Palaearctic water beetles.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Sept 2017
García-Vázquez David, Bilton David T, Foster Garth N, Ribera I
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Quaternary glacial cycles drove major shifts in both the extent and location of the geographical ranges of many organisms. During glacial maxima, large areas of central and northern Europe were inhospitable to temperate species, and these areas are generally assumed to have been recolonized during interglacials by range expansions from Mediterranean refugia. An alternative is that this recolonization was from...
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