“…Pine forests, sometimes with junipers, were clearly abundant, and eventually dominant during cold stages of the peninsular Quaternary (Dupré, 1988; Burjachs and Renault‐Miskovsky, 1992; Yll and Pérez‐Obiol, 1992; Pérez‐Obiol and Julià, 1994; González‐Sampériz et al ., 2003, 2010; Carrión et al ., 2007, 2013; Val‐Peón et al ., 2019). Not far from the Mediterranean coast, under conditions of continentality, pines were the main constituents of wooded steppes and savannahs during cold dry phases, shown in sites such as in the Salines pollen record, inland Alicante (Julià et al ., 1994; Giralt et al ., 1999; Burjachs et al ., 2007; Burjachs, 2009, 2012), which point to rapid developments of Mediterranean vegetation during the last glacial stage in the adjacent mountains (Giralt et al ., 1999; Burjachs et al ., 2007; Burjachs, 2009).…”