This paper reviews the glacial history of the mountains of Greece at the southernmost tip of
the Balkans, providing a new synthesis of our current understanding of glaciations. The ice …

The mechanisms driving the Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) cycles remain uncertain, but
promising hypotheses could explain it, and a comprehensive assessment of its impact is …

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 …

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

Abstract The Iberian Peninsula is located at the intersection between the subtropical and
temperate climate zones and the paleoclimate records from this region are key to elucidate …

Abstract The Marmara region (NW Turkey) has a transitional vegetation and climate
between the Mediterranean one and the Euxinian one. For the last Interglacial period or …

Although the general geomorphology is reasonably well understood, not much information
is available on the incision rates of rivers and related tectonic uplift in the central parts of the …

Pollen analyses have been carried out on the infilling deposits of Grotta Romanelli (Apulia,
Italy), a reference site for the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Italy. The analysis focused on …

Boreal vegetation is influenced by multiple factors such as climate and fire, but interactions
between long-and short-term effects of climate upon fire activity are complex and remain …

We present here the first long Quaternary record of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst
assemblages analysed from sediment cores retrieved during the International Ocean …