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The journal Science Advances has published an article by a team of authors involved in the study of the Eemian interglacial on a European scale. We are pleased to announce that the team also includes an author from our Institute - Prof. Dr. hab. Irena Agnieszka Pidek.
Elena A. Pearce, Florence Mazier, Signe Normand, Ralph Fyfe, Valérie Andrieu, Corrie Bakels, Zofia Balwierz, Krzysztof Bińka, Steve Boreham, Olga K. Borisova, Anna Brostrom, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Cunhai Gao, Penélope González-Sampériz, Wojciech Granoszewski, Anna Hrynowiecka, Piotr Kołaczek, Petr Kuneš, Donatella Magri, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Tim Mighall, Alice M. Milner, Per Möller, Malgorzata Nita, Bożena Noryśkiewicz, Irena Agnieszka Pidek, Maurice Reille, Ann-Marie Robertsson, J. Sakari Salonen, Patrick Schläfli, Jeroen Schokker, Paolo Scussolini, Vaida Šeiriene, Jaqueline Strahl, Brigitte Urban, Hanna Winter, Jens-Christian Svenning, 2023. Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens. Science Advances 9 (45), eadi9135. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi9135.
On the basis of a very large database of palynological and paleontological data, the authors shed light on a new interpretation of the landscape of the Last Interglacial (129-115 thousand years ago) and its plant communities that harbored Eemian megafauna. The work is a collaboration with Dr. Elena Annis Pearce and Prof. Jens-Christian Svenning of Aarhus University in Denmark. Palynological spectra (pollen and plant spores) of the Eemian interglacial, at the scale of the entire European continent, revealed the presence of many open and semi-open habitats with shrubs, light-demanding trees and herbaceous plants, where abundant megafauna could have lived.
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