Uncovering the Impact of Late Cenozoic Climate Cooling on Biogeography
The Late Cenozoic Era, which began approximately 33.9 million years ago, has seen dramatic changes in Earth’s climate. Recently, a team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh and the Natural History Museum of London have been looking into the effects of this cooling on the biogeography of mammals in the Early and Middle Pleistocene. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggest that the cooling led to a greater diversity of mammals in western Europe, while eastern European populations were more vulnerable to extinction. This implies that the cooling had a major impact on the distributions and dynamics of mammal populations in the region.
source: Phys.org