RT Journal Article
T1 Differential responses of Miocene rodent metacommunities to global climatic changes were mediated by environmental context
A1 Blanco, Fernando
A1 Gómez Cano, Ana Rosa
A1 Cantalapiedra, Juan L.
A1 Domingo, M. Soledad
A1 Domingo, Laura
A1 Menéndez González, Iris
A1 Flynn, Lawrence J.
A1 Hernández Fernández, Manuel
AB The study of how long-term changes affect metacommunities is a relevant topic, that involves the evaluation of connections among biological assemblages across different spatio-temporal scales, in order to fully understand links between global changes and macroevolutionary patterns. We applied multivariate statistical analyses and diversity tests using a large data matrix of rodent fossil sites in order to analyse long-term faunal changes. Late Miocene rodent faunas from southwestern Europe were classified into metacommunities, presumably sharing ecological affinities, which followed temporal and environmental non-random assembly and disassembly patterns. Metacommunity dynamics of these faunas were driven by environmental changes associated with temperature variability, but there was also some influence from the aridity shifts described for this region during the late Miocene. Additionally, while variations in the structure of rodent assemblages were directly influenced by global climatic changes in the southern province, the northern sites showed a pattern of climatic influence mediated by diversity-dependent processes.
PB Macmillan
SN ISSN: 2045-2322, online ISSN: 2045-2322
YR 2018
FD 2018-02-06
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12050
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12050
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO German Research Foundation
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 1 ene 2026