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Oct 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006natur.443..687v&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 443, Issue 7112, pp. 687-691 (2006).
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Mammals are among the fastest-radiating groups, being characterized by a mean species lifespan of the order of 2.5millionyears (Myr). The basis for this characteristic timescale of origination, extinction and turnover is not well understood. Various studies have invoked climate change to explain mammalian species turnover, but other studies have either challenged or only partly confirmed the climate-turnover hypothesis. Here we use an exceptionally long (24.5-2.5Myr ago), dense, and well-dated terrestrial record of rodent lineages from central Spain, and show the existence of turnover cycles with periods of 2.4-2.5 and 1.0Myr. We link these cycles to low-frequency modulations of Milankovitch oscillations, and show that pulses of turnover occur at minima of the 2.37-Myr eccentricity cycle and nodes of the 1.2-Myr obliquity cycle. Because obliquity nodes and eccentricity minima are associated with ice sheet expansion and cooling and affect regional precipitation, we infer that long-period astronomical climate forcing is a major determinant of species turnover in small mammals and probably other groups as well.
Abdul Aziz Hayfaa
Ángeles Álvarez Sierra M.
Hilgen Frederik J.
Lourens Lucas J.
Mein Pierre
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