| Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects | |
Wang, Xiaoming1,2,3,4,5; Wang, Yang6; Li, Qiang2; Tseng, Z. Jack1,3,4; Takeuchi, Gary T.7; Deng, Tao2 ; Xie, Guangpu8; Chang, Mee-mann2; Wang, Ning2
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| 2015-06-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | GONDWANA RESEARCH
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| 卷号 | 27期号:4页码:1335-1354 |
| 文章类型 | Review |
| 摘要 | Due to its lofty height, the Tibetan Plateau features some of the harshest environments in the world with extreme coldness, low oxygen, high UV radiation, and in places, severe aridity. These harsh environments have served as the main driver of vertebrate evolution during the Cenozoic that produced a low productivity, low diversity, high endemicity community environmental forcing seems to be a dominant mechanism for mammalian evolution in marginal habitats. Mammals have acquired special adaptations for thermal insulation, oxygen transport, DNA damage repair, and others. While broadly similar to faunal assemblages in North China and Central Asia, Tibetan faunas often show initiation of cold-adapted lineages that predate Ice Age megafauna. Our "out of Tibet" hypothesis thus postulates that cold-tolerant species in Pliocene high Tibet were pre-adapted to conditions that were to become widespread during the subsequent Pleistocene Ice Age and Tibet had thus become a cradle for Ice Age megafauna. The best examples of the "out of Tibet" scenario include the Tibetan woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta thibetana), Tibetan bharal (Pseudois), Asian hunting dog (Sinicuon), and ancestral snow leopard (Panthera blytheae). Our "Third Pole to North Pole" linkage of an extinct Pliocene Tibetan fox, Vulpes qiuzhudingi, with the late Pleistocene and extant arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, is a subset of the "out of Tibet" hypothesis. One of the iconic Tibetan mammals, the endemic Tibetan antelope (Pantholops) has the longest residence in Tibet going back to the late Miocene, suggesting a long history of perfecting its adaptations to cold environments. |
| 关键词 | Tibetan Plateau Vertebrate Paleontology Evolution Ice Age Megafauna Zoogeography Paleoenvironment |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences |
| 关键词[WOS] | KUNLUN PASS BASIN ; PALEO-ELEVATION IMPLICATIONS ; HIGH-ALTITUDE ADAPTATION ; HERBIVORE TOOTH ENAMEL ; QAIDAM BASIN ; LATE MIOCENE ; STABLE-ISOTOPES ; CARBON ISOTOPES ; FOSSIL MAMMALS ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Geology |
| WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000355024800002 |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5384 |
| 专题 | 古哺乳动物研究室 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ So Calif, Dept Biol Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA 4.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Div Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA 5.Nanjing Univ, Sch Earth Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 6.Florida State Univ, Dept Earth Ocean & Atmospher Sci, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA 7.George C Page Museum, Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA 8.Gansu Prov Museum, Lanzhou 730050, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang, Xiaoming,Wang, Yang,Li, Qiang,et al. Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects[J]. GONDWANA RESEARCH,2015,27(4):1335-1354. |
| APA | Wang, Xiaoming.,Wang, Yang.,Li, Qiang.,Tseng, Z. Jack.,Takeuchi, Gary T..,...&Wang, Ning.(2015).Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects.GONDWANA RESEARCH,27(4),1335-1354. |
| MLA | Wang, Xiaoming,et al."Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects".GONDWANA RESEARCH 27.4(2015):1335-1354. |
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