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68 NOMINATION DOSSIER "ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"<br />

Fig. 2.14: Schematic development<br />

of the annual mean<br />

temperature for Central Europe<br />

during the Tertiary and Quarternary<br />

(from WALTER &<br />

STRAKA 1970)<br />

The glacial epoch resulted<br />

in Arctotertiary fl oristic<br />

elements becoming extinct<br />

at a globally unprecedented<br />

scale.<br />

Fig. 2.15: European vegetation<br />

by 20,000 before present<br />

maximum expansion of the<br />

ice during the last glacial period<br />

(from BOHN & NEUHÄUSL<br />

2003)<br />

0C 25<br />

20<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

Eocene Oligocene Miocene Pliocene<br />

60 million years 50 40 30 20 10 0 10<br />

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |<br />

| | | | | |<br />

1.000 km<br />

Polar desert, open tundra<br />

Steppe-tundra<br />

Steppe<br />

Isolated tree stands (deciduous<br />

and coniferous wood)<br />

High Glacial shoreline<br />

Present shoreline<br />

Glacier<br />

Water

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