Pre-Cenozoic Climates: Lamination and primary production in fossil lakes: relationship to palaeoclimate in the Carboniferous-Permian transition • Global terrestrial productivity in the Mesozoic era • Climatic modelling in the Cretaceous using the distribution of planktonic Foraminiferida • The Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) climate in the Northern Hemisphere • Mid-Cenozoic Climates • Palaeoclimatic evolution in the Miocene from the Transylvanian Depression reflected in the fossil record • Environmental changes in pre-evaporitic late Miocene time in the Lorca Basin (SE Spain): diatom results • Late Miocene climatic cycles and their effect on sedimentation (west Hungary) • Climatic oscillations versus environmental changes in the interpretation of Tertiary plant assemblages. Responses to Quaternary Climate Change • An integrated micropalaeontological approach applied to Late Pleistocene - Holocene palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental changes (Gaeta Bay, Tyrrhenian Sea) • Cooling evidence from Pleistocene shelf assemblages in SE Sicily • Late Glacial and Post-Glacial pollen records and inferred climatic changes from Lake Balaton and the Great Hungarian Plain • Palaeoceanography and numerical modelling: the Mediterranean Sea at times of sapropel formation • Pollen analysis of the Acerno palaeolacustrine succession (Middle Pleistocene, southern Italy). Vertebrate and Hominid Evolution as a Response to Climate Change • Large mammal turnover pulses correlated with latest Neogene glacial trends in the northwestern Mediterranean area • The contribution of Quaternary vertebrates to palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatological reconstructions in Sicily • Were climatic changes a driving force in hominid evolution? • Late Quaternary vertebrate taphocoenoses from cave deposits in southeastern Austria: responses in a periglacial setting. Index. Principal authors: A. Clausing, Institut fur Geologische und Geiseltalmuseum, Germany. D. J. Beerling, University of Sheffield, UK. M. B. Hart, University of Plymouth, UK. L. B. Goloneva, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. C. Chira, Babes-Blyai University, Romania. Th., Jurschat, Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Germany. M. Korpas-Hodi, Geological Institute of Hungary, Hungary. Z. Kvaek, Charles University, Czech Republic. F. O. Amore, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy. I. Di Geronimo, Catania University, Italy. E. Nagy-Bodor, Geological Institute of Hungary, Hungary. E. J. Rohling, University of Southampton, UK. E. Russo Ermoli, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy. B. Azanza, Museo Nacional de Ciencia Naturales, Spain. L. Bonfiglio, University of Messina, Italy. J. Chaline, Universite de Bourgogne, France. F. A. Fladerer, Universitat Wien, Austria.