Projektnummer

0066508

Zusammenfassung

The distribution of species today differs markedly from that during the ice ages. In temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere we most often assume that species occurred further south during the glacial maxima and subsequently dispersed to the north. In Europe, the focus of analyses on the distribution in the past has focused on the three southern peninsulas of Europe. Frequently, reports also considered cryptic northern refugia (i.e. those not supported by fossil evidence). There are, however, few studies that intensively investigated the possible existence of refugia further east, in East...