RT Journal Article
T1 New palaeoecological approaches to interpret climatic fluctuations in Holocenic sites of the Pampean Region of Argentina
A1 García Morato, Sara
A1 Fernández Jalvo, Yolanda
A1 Montalvo, Claudia I.
A1 Andrews, Peter
A1 Marín Monfort, María Dolores
A1 Fagoaga, Ana
A1 Domínguez García, Ángel Carmelo
A1 Alberdi, María Teresa
A1 Bonini, Ricardo
A1 Cerdeño, Esperanza
A1 Denys, Christiane
A1 Domingo Martínez, Laura
A1 Domingo Martínez, María Soledad
A1 Gutiérrez, María A.
A1 López Cantalapiedra, Juan
A1 Pesquero, M. Dolores
A1 Prado, José Luis
A1 Sevilla García, María Paloma
A1 Stoetzel, Emmanuelle
A1 Tomassini, Rodrigo L.
A1 Fernández, Fernando J.
AB The apparently regular and favourable climate that characterizes the Holocene as an interglacial period shows, however, important climatic instability well documented in the Northern Hemisphere. These fluctuations from colder to warmer or wetter to drier affected both biodiversity and human societies in the last 12,000 years, although the impact in Southern America is still poorly known. We are here investigating the biodiversity of small mammal faunas, more sensitive to climatic changes than large mammals, combining taphonomic and palaeoecological data in the Argentine Pampas to better understand the global nature and effect of these Holocene climatic fluctuations. This paper is pioneering applying in this region palaeoecological methodologies practised in European sites, such as the chorotype classification and biomes overlap analyses. The Pampean Region is an ecotone with a confluence of three climatic regions where any change in climatic conditions should be easily detected. Our results, based on the palaeoecological requirements of small mammals, do not indicate severe changes, and most of the sites show climatic stability except for one of them, in which a possible trend towards present conditions (temperate/humid) can be inferred.
PB Elsevier
SN 0277-3791
YR 2021
FD 2021-03-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7790
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7790
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid/Banco de Santander
NO Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
NO Secretaría General de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional del Sur
NO Banco Santander
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 abr 2025