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SUBMITTER: Giesecke T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6882886 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Giesecke Thomas T Wolters Steffen S van Leeuwen Jacqueline F N JFN van der Knaap Pim W O PWO Leydet Michelle M Brewer Simon S
Nature communications 20191128 1
Climate warming is expected to cause a poleward spread of species, resulting in increased richness at mid to high latitudes and weakening the latitudinal diversity gradient. We used pollen data to test if such a change in the latitudinal diversity gradient occurred during the last major poleward shift of plant species in Europe following the end of the last glacial period. In contrast to expectations, the slope of the gradient strengthened during the Holocene. The increase in temperatures around ...[more]