Abstract: Abstract West Georgia is part of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot and hosts the Colchic vegetation, a ‘Tertiary’ refuge, with many endemic and relic species. Based on fossil pollen records from 21 localities in west Georgia quantitative climate reconstruction has been carried out covering the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene periods. Further, major shifts in vegetation have been unraveled using the biomization procedure. The obtained results were compared to global climate patterns and generally matched the late Neogene cooling trend as ...
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Physical geography
Climatology
Paleontology