DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.025
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84903649143
论文题名: Macaques at the margins: The biogeography and extinction of Macaca sylvanus in Europe
作者: Elton S. ; O'Regan H.J.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2014
卷: 96 起始页码: 117
结束页码: 130
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Eurasia
; Fossil
; Miocene
; Modelling
; Pleistocene
; Pliocene
; Primate
; Time budgets
Scopus关键词: Budget control
; Ecology
; Mammals
; Models
; Population statistics
; Stochastic systems
; Budget control
; Ecology
; Mammals
; Models
; Population statistics
; Stochastic systems
; Eurasia
; Fossil
; Miocene
; Pleistocene
; Pliocene
; Primate
; Time budget
; Climate models
; Climate models
; biogeographical region
; climate effect
; climate modeling
; extinction
; fossil record
; paleoclimate
; population distribution
; primate
; vegetation cover
; ecological modeling
; evolutionary biology
; habitat selection
; mass extinction
; Miocene
; paleobiogeography
; Pleistocene
; vegetation dynamics
; Europe
; Cercopithecidae
; Elephas antiquus
; Haplorhini
; Macaca
; Macaca sylvanus
; Primates
; Rhinoceros
; Theropithecus
英文摘要: The genus Macaca (Primates: Cercopithecidae) originated in Africa, dispersed into Europe in the Late Miocene and resided there until the Late Pleistocene. In this contribution, we provide an overview of the evolutionary history of Macaca in Europe, putting it into context with the wider late Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene European monkey fossil record (also comprising Mesopithecus, Paradolichopithecus, Dolichopithecus and Theropithecus). The Pliocene and Pleistocene European Macaca fossil material is largely regarded as Macaca sylvanus, the same species as the extant Barbary macaque in North Africa. The M.sylvanus specimens found at West Runton in Norfolk (53°N) during the Middle Pleistocene are among the most northerly euprimates ever discovered. Our simple time-budget model indicates that short winter day lengths would have imposed a significant constraint on activity at such relatively high latitudes, so macaque populations in Britain may have been at the limit of their ecological tolerance. Two basic models using climatic and topographic data for the Last Interglacial and the Last Glacial Maximum alongside Middle and Late Pleistocene fossil distributions indicate that much of Europe may have been suitable habitat for macaques. The models also indicate that areas of southern Europe in the present day have a climate that could support macaque populations. However, M.sylvanus became locally extinct in the Late Pleistocene, possibly at a similar time as the straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, and narrow-nosed rhinoceros, Stephanorhinus hemitoechus. Its extinction may be related to vegetation change or increased predation from Homo, although other factors (such as stochastic factors occurring as a result of small population sizes) cannot be ruled out. Notwithstanding the cause of extinction, the European macaque may thus be a previously overlooked member of the Late Pleistocene faunal turnover. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60226
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作者单位: Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom; Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Elton S.,O'Regan H.J.. Macaques at the margins: The biogeography and extinction of Macaca sylvanus in Europe[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2014-01-01,96