Vegetation Composition in a Typical Mediterranean Setting (Gulf of Corinth, Greece) during Successive Quaternary Climatic Cycles

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15801731
AutoresAikaterini Kafetzidou (0000-0002-4949-7252, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Eugenia Fatourou (0000-0002-8147-3365, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos (0000-0002-3158-7962, University of Cologne), Fabienne Marret (0000-0003-4244-0437, University of Liverpool), Katerina Kouli (0000-0003-1656-1091, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen6
Número2
Páginas30-30
Fecha de publicación2023-05-05
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQuaternary (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2571-550X • E-ISSN: 2571-550X
EditorialMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/quat6020030
OpenAlexW4372279247
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas64

The Gulf of Corinth is a semi-isolated basin in central Greece interrupting the Pindus Mountain Range, which nowadays is a biodiversity hotspot. Considering its key location, deep drilling was carried out within the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP; Expedition 381: Corinth Active Rift Development) aiming to improve our understanding of climatic and environmental evolution in the region. Here, we present a new long pollen record from a Mediterranean setting in the southernmost tip of the Balkan Peninsula recording the vegetation succession within the Quaternary. The Corinth pollen record shows no major shifts in arboreal pollen between glacial and interglacial intervals, while Mediterranean and mesophilous taxa remain abundant throughout the study interval. During interglacials, the most frequent reconstructed biomes are cool mixed evergreen needleleaf (CMIX) and deciduous broadleaf forests (DBWB), while graminoid with forb (GRAM) and xerophytic shrubs (XSHB) dominate within glacials. Our findings support the hypothesis that the study area was a significant refugium, providing suitable habitats for Mediterranean, mesophilous and montane trees during successive Quaternary climate cycles

Deciduous · Geography · Glacial period · Interglacial · Mediterranean climate · Physical geography · Pistacia lentiscus · Quaternary · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Marine and environmental studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology