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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0259151
	Fossil birds from the Roof of the World: The first avian fauna from High Asia and its implications for late Quaternary environments in Eastern Pamir
	Zelenkov, Nikita; Sayfulloev, Nuritdin; Shnaider, Svetlana, V
通讯作者	Zelenkov, N (corresponding author)，Russian Acad Sci, Borissiak Paleontol Inst, Moscow, Russia.
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2021
卷号	16 期号:10
英文摘要	The Eastern Pamir (eastern Tajikistan) is a high-mountain plateau with elevations up to 7000 m, currently characterized by extremely severe environmental conditions and harboring a specialized montane fauna, which in part is shared with that of the Tibetan Plateau. The modern bird fauna of High Asia comprises a diversity of both ancient and recently diverged endemics, and thus is of general importance for historical biogeography and understanding the origin of modern high mountain ecosystems. However, the past history of the Central Asian highland avian communities remains practically unknown, as no fossil bird assemblages from high elevation areas were previously reported. In particular, it remains completely unexplored how birds responded to late Quaternary climatic fluctuations. Here we report the first fossil bird fauna from the High Asia and the first fossil birds from Tajikistan. An assemblage from the late Pleistocene through middle Holocene of lstykskaya cave (4060 m) in Eastern Pamir surprisingly comprises a remarkable diversity of waterbirds, including a few species that are completely absent from High Asia today and that were not reported globally from such high altitudes. The diversity of waterbirds incudes taxa of various ecological preferences (shorebirds, underwater and surface feeders, both zoophagous and phytophagous), strongly indicating the presence of a productive waterbody at the vicinity of the site in the past. These observations correspond to recent palaeoclimatic data, implying increased water availability in this region, currently occupied by high mountain semi-deserts. Our findings for the first time show that milder environmental conditions of late Quaternary attracted lowland species to the Central Asian highland wetlands. The reported assemblage yet contains several characteristic highland taxa, indicating a long-time persistence of some Central Asian montane faunistic elements. In particular, it includes the Tibetan Sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes tibetanus), a highly-specialized montane dweller, which is for the first time found in the fossil record.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000755636500053
WOS关键词	LAKE KARAKUL ; PRESBYORNIS ; EVOLUTION ; QUADRATE ; PLIOCENE ; ALTAI ; RIVER ; CAVE ; AVES
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/375885
作者单位	[Zelenkov, Nikita] Russian Acad Sci, Borissiak Paleontol Inst, Moscow, Russia; [Sayfulloev, Nuritdin] Inst Hist Archaeol & Ethnog, Dushanbe, Tajikistan; [Shnaider, Svetlana, V] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Archaeol & Ethnog, CNRS IAET SB RAS Int Res Lab,Siberian Branch, ArchaeoZOOl Siberia & Cent Asia ZooSCAn,IRL 2013, Novosibirsk, Russia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zelenkov, Nikita,Sayfulloev, Nuritdin,Shnaider, Svetlana, V. Fossil birds from the Roof of the World: The first avian fauna from High Asia and its implications for late Quaternary environments in Eastern Pamir[J],2021,16(10).
APA	Zelenkov, Nikita,Sayfulloev, Nuritdin,&Shnaider, Svetlana, V.(2021).Fossil birds from the Roof of the World: The first avian fauna from High Asia and its implications for late Quaternary environments in Eastern Pamir.PLOS ONE,16(10).
MLA	Zelenkov, Nikita,et al."Fossil birds from the Roof of the World: The first avian fauna from High Asia and its implications for late Quaternary environments in Eastern Pamir".PLOS ONE 16.10(2021).