121202 20241125101127.0 doi 10.1111/jbi.14521 sideral 131658 ART-2023-131658 eng Baca, Mateusz Ancient DNA reveals interstadials as a driver of common vole population dynamics during the last glacial period 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Aim: Many species experienced population turnover and local extinction during the Late Pleistocene. In the case of megafauna, it remains challenging to disentangle climate change and the activities of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers as the main cause. In contrast, the impact of humans on rodent populations is likely to be negligible. This study investigated which climatic and/or environmental factors affect the population dynamics of the common vole. This temperate rodent is widespread across Europe and was one of the most abundant small mammal species throughout the Late Pleistocene. Location: Europe. Taxon: Common vole (Microtus arvalis). Methods: We generated a dataset comprised of 4.2 kb long fragment of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 148 ancient and 51 modern specimens sampled from multiple localities across Europe and covering the last 60 thousand years (ka). We used Bayesian inference to reconstruct their phylogenetic relationships and to estimate the age of the specimens that were not directly dated. Results: We estimated the time to the most recent common ancestor of all last glacial and extant common vole lineages to be 90 ka ago and the divergence of the main mtDNA lineages present in extant populations to between 55 and 40 ka ago, which is earlier than most previous estimates. We detected several lineage turnovers in Europe during the period of high climate variability at the end of Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3; 57–29 ka ago) in addition to those found previously around the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. In contrast, data from the Western Carpathians suggest continuity throughout the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) even at high latitudes. Main Conclusions: The main factor affecting the common vole populations during the last glacial period was the decrease in open habitat during the interstadials, whereas climate deterioration during the LGM had little impact on population dynamics. This suggests that the rapid environmental change rather than other factors was the major force shaping the histories of the Late Pleistocene faunas. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/803147/EU/Radiocarbon, tree rings, and solar variability provide the accurate time scale for human evolution and geoscience/RESOLUTION This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No H2020 803147-RESOLUTION info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/RYC-2016-19386 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2011-30274 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CGL2015-71255-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 3.4 2023 GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL 14 / 65 = 0.215 2023 Q1 T1 ECOLOGY 52 / 197 = 0.264 2023 Q2 T1 1.46 2023 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2023 Q1 Ecology 2023 Q1 7.7 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Popovic, Danijela Lemanik, Anna Bañuls-Cardona, Sandra Conard, Nicholas J. Cuenca-Bescós, Gloria Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5125-9651 Desclaux, Emmanuel Fewlass, Helen Garcia, Jesus T. Hadravova, Tereza Heckel, Gerald Horácek, Ivan Knul, Monika Vlasta Lebreton, Loïc López-García, Juan Manuel Luzi, Elisa Markovic, Zoran Mauch Lenardic, Jadranka Murelaga, Xabier Noiret, Pierre Petculescu, Alexandru Popov, Vasil Rhodes, Sara E. Ridush, Bogdan Royer, Aurélien Stewart, John R. Stojak, Joanna Talamo, Sahra Wang, Xuejing Wójcik, Jan M. Nadachowski, Adam 2000 655 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra Área Paleontología 50, 1 (2023), 183-196 J. biogeogr. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY 0305-0270 2593113 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/121202/files/texto_completo.pdf Preprint 2053624 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/121202/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Preprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:121202 articulos driver 2024-11-22-11:57:55 ARTICLE