We present a critical review of the fossil record of Cenozoic terrestrial gastropods of Europe
utilizing a literature-based dataset comprising 1640 species from 609 sites. Net diversity …

Aim Pollen has been used before to reconstruct Holocene plant diversity changes in broadly
delimited regions such as continents and countries. In this study we ask whether finer‐scale …

Human population has affected natural ecosystems since prehistoric times in many ways,
causing disturbances in existing ecosystems and creating novel habitats, and altering the …

Central European forests have been shaped by complex human interactions throughout the
Holocene, with significant changes following the introduction of domesticated animals in the …

Recent zonal steppes of Eastern Europe and South-West Asia have their origin in the glacial
steppe with its specific continental climate. The westernmost edge of the steppe belt in …

An isolated limestone hill (Cisowa Skała), located in the Podhale Basin in southern Poland,
has yielded mollusc shells and small vertebrate bones in deposits filling small karst forms …

This study constitutes a first attempt at a qualitative and quantitative inventory of land snails
from the Kebir-Rhumel basin, in the northeast of Algeria. Sampling was carried out by hand …

The scope of this analysis included fluvial sediments of the low terrace of the Grajcarek
stream in the Małe Pieniny Mts.(Western Carpathians). The structure of the terrace has been …

Our knowledge of the plant diet of the last European hunter-gatherers is hindered by the
difficulties of recording poorly durable plant tissues. One exception is the hazelnut fruit …

The Alps are an important hotspot of species diversity and endemism, as well as a
presumed glacial refugium of several species' groups including land snails. The recent …