A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

Global climate shifted to markedly warmer interglacial conditions across the “mid-Brunhes
transition”(MBT,~ 400 ka). However, a global MBT synthesis that spans marine and …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Mediterranean climates are characterized by strong seasonal contrasts between dry
summers and wet winters. Changes in winter rainfall are critical for regional socioeconomic …

The sediment record from Lake Ohrid (Southwestern Balkans) represents the longest
continuous lake archive in Europe, extending back to 1.36 Ma. We reconstruct the …

Here, we describe a partial cranium of a large canid dated at 406.5±2.4 ka from the Middle
Pleistocene of Ponte Galeria (Rome, Italy). The sample represents one of the few Middle …

The northern Mediterranean reptiles and amphibians show contrasting biogeographic
histories during the Plio-Pleistocene. The influence of European climate changes on the …

In the last 46 years extensive effort has been devoted to the botanical identification of pollen
grains from Neogene deposits. This robust approach is the only reliable way to reconstruct …

Extinction of species has been a recurrent phenomenon in the history of our planet, but it
was generally outweighed in the course of quite a long geological time by the appearance of …

There is an increasing need for paleoclimate records from continental settings to better
understand the climatic changes during critical periods such as the Pliocene and Early …