Vegetation and climate across the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition atn Montalbano Jonico, southern Italy

摘要

Pollen analysis of the Montalbano Jonico marine succession (MJS), southern Italy, provides a continuous vegetational record between 858 ka and 745.13 ka which includes Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 19, now considered the closest orbital analogue to the Holocene. A comparison between paleoclimate proxies and global signals of past climate change allows the pollen record to be interpreted in terms of major environmental and climate modifications through MIS 21-18 at the orbital-and sub-orbital-scale.