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A marine refugium in Iceland during the last glacial maximum: fact or fiction?
Author(s) -
Ingólfsson Agnar
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00405.x
Subject(s) - refugium (fishkeeping) , glacial period , arctic , last glacial maximum , the arctic , oceanography , physical geography , ecology , biology , paleontology , geology , geography , habitat
Although several authors have postulated coastal ice‐free areas during the last glacial maximum in Iceland, where some species may have survived, the geological evidence strongly indicates that there were none. Also, the species involved are mostly not found in the high arctic today, and are therefore unlikely to have endured conditions in frigid glacial refugia.