Abstract The transition from a greenhouse to an icehouse world at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT) coincided with large decrease of pollen steppe-adapted genus Nitraria. This genus, now common along Mediterranean coast, Asia and Australia, has proposed coastal origin geographically widespread fossil record. Here we investigated evolution, taxonomic diversity morphological disparity Nitrari...

Asian mineral dust has been studied extensively for its role in affecting regional-to global-scale climate and deposits, which enable reconstructing atmospheric circulation the past. However, timing origin of deposits remain debated. Numerous loess records have reported across continent with ages varying from Miocene to Eocene linked various mechanisms including global cooling, Tibetan Plateau ...

The freshwater shrimp genus Atyaephyra de Brito Capello, 1867 is a complex of cryptic species with morphologically overlapping features, which has led to invalid identifications until recently. The genus is distributed around the entire Mediterranean Basin and surrounding areas. In 2009 we used a molecular approach with 16S and Cox1 genes to identify the European and African populations and to ...