Hot spring oases in the periglacial desert as the Last Glacial Maximum refugia for temperate trees in Central Europe
Jan Hošek,
Petr Pokorný,
David Storch
et al.
Abstract:Northern glacial refugia are a hotly debated concept. The idea that many temperate organisms survived the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ~26.5 to 19 thousand years) in several sites across central and northern Europe stems from phylogeographic analyses, yet direct fossil evidence has thus far been missing. Here, we present the first unequivocal proof that thermophilous trees such as oak (
Quercus
), linden (
Tilia
), and common ash (
Fraxinus excelsior
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