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SUBMITTER: Anderson LL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1567899 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anderson Lynn L LL Hu Feng Sheng FS Nelson David M DM Petit Rémy J RJ Paige Ken N KN
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060807 33
Paleorecords offer key information for evaluating model simulations of species migration in response to forecast climatic change. However, their utility can be greatly compromised by the existence of glacial refugia that are undetectable in fossil records (cryptic refugia). Despite several decades of investigation, it remains controversial whether Beringia, the largely unglaciated area extending from northeastern Siberia to the Yukon Territory, harbored small populations of certain boreal tree s ...[more]