Extreme temporal interpolation of sparse data is not a sufficient basis to substantiate a claim to have uncovered Pleistocene forest microrefugia.
Extreme temporal interpolation of sparse data is not a sufficient basis to substantiate a claim to have uncovered Pleistocene forest microrefugia.
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稀疏数据的极端时间插值不足以证实已发现更新世森林微保护区的说法。
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10.1111/nph.12941
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2014
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Huntley B
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Huntley B
De Lafontaine et al.(2014; this issue of New Phytologist, pp. 715–729) claim to have uncovered Pleistocene forest microrefugia in the Landes de Gascogne, western France, using radiocarbondated charcoal fragments recovered from soils. In particular, they conclude that Fagus sylvatica (beech)‘persisted in situ in several microrefugia through full glacial and interglacial periods up to the present day’. They cite genetic evidence of extant populations of F. sylvatica from this region and elsewhere (de Lafontaine et al., 2013) in support of their conclusion, stating that F. sylvatica populations in the Landes de Gascogne ‘belong to distinct endemic genetic lineages’(my emphasis). They also cite in support of their conclusions published evidence from species distribution models (Svenning et al., 2008) claiming to show that Fagus could have persisted in the region during the Late Pleniglacial (LPG) interval. Before the claims made by de Lafontaine et al.(2014) can be accepted, both their own evidence and that which they cite in support of their conclusions must be subjected to critical examination. Careful examination of Table S2 in the supporting information that accompanies their paper reveals that de Lafontaine et al.(2014) obtained only nine pre-Holocene radiocarbon dates on pieces of charcoal, five of which were identified as F. sylvatica, one of which gave an effectively infinite age, and four of which were identified as Pinus sylvestris. The 2r calibrated age ranges for these nine dates, as given in Table S2 of de Lafontaine et al.(2014), are plotted on Fig. 1, along with two palaeotemperature proxies, the d18O records from the GRIP ice core (Johnsen et al., 2001) and from planktonic foraminiferans from the MD95-2039 marine sediment core obtained off the coast of north-west Iberia
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Fletcher, William J.;Goni, Maria Fernanda Sanchez;Tzedakis, P. C.
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Tzedakis, P. C.