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 …

Abstract The Caspian Sea, the largest land–locked water body worldwide, has undergone
water level changes much larger than that of the oceans and within decades only. In this …

The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to
provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support …

The palynological investigation of core TM (27.7 m long) taken in a dried out lagoon reveals
both Holocene vegetation history in the north-eastern foothills of the Alborz Mountains and …

Historical literature may constitute a valuable source of information to reconstruct sea-level
changes. Here, historical documents and geological records have been combined to …

Abstract Late Pleistocene and/or Holocene high-resolution palynological studies are
available for the south basin of the Caspian Sea (CS), the world's largest lake. However, the …

The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for
studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region …

Abstract The normally-closed Caspian Sea is known for large changes in relative sea-level
(of∼ 170 m) during the late Quaternary. These transgressive/regressive events influenced …

The Caspian Sea is well-known for its rapid sea-level change. During 1929–1995, a full sea-
level cycle was observed. First, the sea level dropped∼ 3 m with a lowstand in 1977 …

Climate data from the southwest coast of the Caspian Sea (CS) were statistically analysed to
find connections with large-scale atmospheric variabilities and regional impacts. The study …