“…Warm Mediterranean taxa such as Olea europaea, Pistacia lentiscus, and Rosmarinus officinalis, especially, become more common in sites from the southernmost parts of the zone (Carrión Marco, 2005;Aura Tortosa et al, 2010;Villaverde Bonilla et al, 2010). The Mediterranean woodland of today is a characteristic of the Holocene, when it spread from Pleistocene refugia in the south of the peninsula (Badal Garcia, 1998;Jorda Pardo and Aura Tortosa, 2008;Jorda Pardo et al, 2011;Carrión, 2012;Villaverde Bonilla et al, 2012).…”