期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 277, 期 1697, 页码 3105-3112出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0523
关键词
biodiversity; hominoids; Neogene; environmental dynamics; ungulates
资金
- Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
- Fyssen Foundation (France)
- Singer-Polignac Foundation (France)
- ECLIPSE CNRS programme (France)
- RHOI NSF programme (USA)
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [KA 1525/8-1, KA 1525/9-1]
successful evolutionary radiations of European hominoids and pliopithecoids came to an end during the Late Miocene. Using ruminant diets as environmental proxies, it becomes possible to detect variations in vegetation over time with the potential to explain fluctuations in primate diversity along a NW-SE European transect. Analysis shows that ruminants had diverse diets when primate diversity reached its peak, with more grazers in eastern Europe and more browsers farther west. After the drop in primate diversity, grazers accounted for a greater part of western and central European communities. Eastwards, the converse trend was evident with more browsing ruminants. These opposite trends indicate habitat loss and an increase in environmental uniformity that may have severely favoured the decline of primate diversity.
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