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Introduction to the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume The Snowmastodon Project

Abstract

Studies of terrestrial biotic and environmental dynamics of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 5, also called the Last Interglacial Period, provide insight into the effects of long-term climate change on Pleistocene ecosystems. In North America, however, there are relatively few fossil sites that definitively date to MIS 5. Even fewer contain multiple ecosystem components (vertebrates, invertebrates, plants) that have been studied in detail, and none are located at high elevation. Thus, our view of North American ecosystems during MIS 5 is, at best, an incomplete composite view, and alpine ecosystems are entirely undocumented.

Authors

Johnson KR; Miller IM; Pigati JS

Journal

Quaternary Research, Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 473–476

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication Date

January 1, 2014

DOI

10.1016/j.yqres.2013.12.010

ISSN

0033-5894

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