“…For distinct Brazilian biomes, this approach has been explored in order to indicate potential long‐term climate stability areas (refugia) during Quaternary climatic fluctuations (Bueno et al., ; Carnaval, Hickerson, Haddad, Rodrigues, & Moritz, ; Carnaval & Moritz, ; Dantas et al., ; Martins, ; Werneck, Costa, Colli, Prado, & Sites, ; Werneck, Nogueira, Colli, Sites, & Costa, ). Despite gaps in the knowledge about palaeoenvironments in Brazil, it is known that complex climatic variations during the Quaternary shaped a large portion of the current landscapes in the country (Behling, ; Neto, Galvani, & Vieira, ; Oliveira et al., ).…”