1. Introduction to the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume The Snowmastodon Project
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Harrison Gray, Adam Rountrey, Shannon Mahan, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Beth Shapiro, Jeffrey Pigati, Nathaniel Lifton, John Demboski, Scott Elias, and Jeffrey Honke
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Environmental dynamics ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Pleistocene ,Ecology ,Stage (stratigraphy) ,High elevation ,Interglacial ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Climate change ,Ecosystem ,Geology ,Earth-Surface Processes ,Invertebrate - 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.
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- 2014
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