Ecological implications of Cousinia Cass. (Asteraceae) persistence through the last two glacial–interglacial cycles in the continental Middle East for the Irano-Turanian flora

Increasing phylogenetic support for explosively radiating taxa: The promise of high‐throughput sequencing for Oxytropis (Fabaceae)

“…We assume that a combination of these factors has caused the rapid diversification of Oxytropis in Iran. In fact, the mountains of Iran were comparatively less severely hit by the last glacial periods than the more northern mountain ranges (Djamali et al, ), probably allowing elevational displacement to efficiently buffer against the extinction of narrow endemics. At the same time, Iranian mountains were isolated from each other by arid lowlands during warm climate phases, and by valley glaciation (Agakhanjanz & Breckle, ) during cold snaps, both of which may have acted as effective dispersal barriers and therefore have fostered allopatric speciation.…”

Vegetation and environmental changes during the last interglacial in eastern Anatolia (Turkey): a new high-resolution pollen record from Lake Van

“…Betula), sclerophyllous taxa (Pistacia cf. atlantica) and temperate trees (deciduous Quercus, Ulmus) requires a generally warmer environment with mild winter temperature (Wick et al, 2003;Litt et al, 2009;Djamali et al, 2012a). However, the pollen-inferred climate evolution points not only to mild winter temperatures (e.g.…”

Dynamics of the last four glacial terminations recorded in Lake Van, Turkey

“…While studies of past interglacials shed light on different aspects of climate change in a warmer world (Tzedakis and Bennett, 1996;Frogley et al, 1999;Brauer et al, 2008), very few comparative approaches of several glacial terminations recovered from the same continental archive exist (Prokopenko et al, 2006;Cheng et al, 2009). The Eastern Mediterranean region yielded a couple of continental records covering at least one full glacial/interglacial cycle (Bar-Matthews et al, 2000;Torfstein et al, 2009;Develle et al, 2011;Djamali et al, 2012;Stevens et al, 2012), or capturing the termination or the glacial inception (e.g. Bartov et al, 2003;Jones et al, 2007;Waldmann et al, 2009).…”