The avifauna of Dursunlu, Turkey, Lower Pleistocene: climate, environment and biogeography

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Louchart A., Mourer-Chauvire C., Gulec E., Howell F., White T.

COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES SERIE II FASCICULE A-SCIENCES DE LA TERRE ET DES PLANETES, vol.327, no.5, pp.341-346, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)

• Publication Type: Article / Article
• Volume: 327 Issue: 5
• Publication Date: 1998
• Doi Number: 10.1016/s1251-8050(98)80053-0
• Journal Name: COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES SERIE II FASCICULE A-SCIENCES DE LA TERRE ET DES PLANETES
• Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
• Page Numbers: pp.341-346
• Keywords: avifauna, Lower Pleistocene, Turkey, Mediterranean Basin, climate, environment, glaciation
• Ankara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The Lower Pleistocene site of Dursunlu, southern Anatolia, provided a rich, mainly aquatic avifauna, with a majority of extant forms. These indicate an open, steppic environment and a Mediterranean climate, both similar ro those of today's Anatolia. This region partially allowed-like all the Mediterranean Basin-northern species (not trans-Saharian migrants) to retire southwards during glaciations, while keeping the Mediterranean species (mainly sedentary). ((C) Academie des sciences / Elsevier, Paris.).