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Introduction to the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume The Snowmastodon Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Kirk R. Johnson ,
Ian M. Miller ,
Jeffrey S. Pigati  and
the Snowmastodon Project Science Team
Kirk R. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205, USA
Ian M. Miller
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205, USA
Jeffrey S. Pigati
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Box 25046, MS-980, Denver, CO 80225, USA
*
⁎Corresponding author at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.E-mail address:[email protected] (K.R. Johnson).
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Studies of terrestrial biotic and environmental dynamics of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 5, also called the Last Interglacial Period, provide insight into the effects of long-term climate change on Pleistocene ecosystems. In North America, however, there are relatively few fossil sites that definitively date to MIS 5. Even fewer contain multiple ecosystem components (vertebrates, invertebrates, plants) that have been studied in detail, and none are located at high elevation. Thus, our view of North American ecosystems during MIS 5 is, at best, an incomplete composite view, and alpine ecosystems are entirely undocumented.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 82 , Issue 3 , November 2014 , pp. 473 - 476
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University of Washington

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Footnotes

1 A list of the Snowmastodon Project science team is provided in Appendix A.

References

Johnson, K.R., and Miller, I.M. Digging Snowmastodon: Discovering an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies. (2012). Denver Museum of Nature and Science and People's Press, Denver CO.Google Scholar