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Paleoenvironmental Implications of the Quaternary Distribution of the Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias Striatus) in Central Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Russell W. Graham
Russell W. Graham*
Affiliation:
Quaternary Studies Center, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois 62706
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Abstract

Four Quaternary cave sites in central Texas demonstrate that the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) ranged more than 600 km southwest of its modern distribution. Climatographs suggest that the late Pleistocene/early Holocene summer climates were either 7.5°C cooler and 120 mm moister than today or 300 mm moister, if temperature remained unchanged. The distribution of T. striatus also implies that mixed deciduous forest existed on the eastern Edwards Plateau at this time.

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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1984 , pp. 111 - 114
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University of Washington

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