“…Horák‐Terra et al (2020), working in the Pinheiro peatland, interpreted displacement of the ITCZ, and consequently of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ), to the north of the study area during the LGM, probably being located above the SdEM. The displacement of the ITCZ is associated with glaciations in the northern hemisphere (Heinrich, 1988), which would have changed the regime of hot and humid winds and, consequently, intensified the activity of rains in central Brazil (Wang et al , 2006; Cheng et al , 2013; Arruda and Schaefer, 2020). This increase in annual precipitation may explain the expansion of Araucaria , Podocarpus , Drimys , Hedyosmum , Ilex , Myrsine and Symplocos , as suggested in studies that integrate pollen with isotopic records of speleothems (Stríkis et al , 2011, 2015, 2018; Pinaya et al , 2019; Bradley and Diaz, 2021).…”