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dc.contributor.author | McLaren S. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Svirčev, Zorica | en |
dc.contributor.author | O'Hara-Dhand K. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Heneberg P. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Smalley I. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-30T09:04:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-30T09:04:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014-01-01 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 10406182 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://open.uns.ac.rs/handle/123456789/7841 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The Northern Carmine Bee-Eater (Merops nubicus) lives and breeds in a well demarcated region stretching across Africa close to the 15°N line of latitude. The Bee-Eater zone appears to be associated with a band of loess, defined by Scheidig on his 1934 map as second-order loess. Bee-eaters are known to favour loess for nesting tunnels and it appears that the 15°N material is sufficiently loess-like. Obvious sources for particulate materials for the 15°N band are the Fonta-Djalon highlands which supply sedimentary material to the River Niger; the Bodele Depression, the deepest part of Lake Megachad, source of dust for the World; the Ethiopian highlands at the eastern end of 15°N which supply silt to the Nile system and particulates to the 15°N region. In soil moisture terms the region is ustic, which is possibly a necessary condition for bee-eater nests. The clastic material requires an ustic environment. The River Niger can be seen as a loess river; in some senses a mirror-image of a major loess river like the Danube; but where a restricted range of particle inputs leads to a restricted range of loess deposit outputs. Nevertheless loess river considerations can be applied. The Niger delivers second-order loess and an important loessic admixture to the landscape. Enough loess for selective nesters like the Carmine Bee-Eaters to build their nest tunnels in it. It seems likely that climate change will cause a change in bee-eater distribution; it seems unlikely that they will abandon their nesting regions, the living and wintering zones may shift. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Quaternary International | en |
dc.title | Loess and Bee-Eaters II: The 'loess' of North Africa and the nesting behaviour of the Northern Carmine Bee-Eater (Merops nubicus Gmelin 1788) | en |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.01.040 | en |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-84902128983 | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84902128983 | en |
dc.relation.lastpage | 118 | en |
dc.relation.firstpage | 112 | en |
dc.relation.volume | 334-335 | en |
item.fulltext | No Fulltext | - |
item.grantfulltext | none | - |
crisitem.author.dept | Prirodno-matematički fakultet, Departman za biologiju i ekologiju | - |
crisitem.author.parentorg | Prirodno-matematički fakultet | - |
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