Ricerc@Sapienza

Lake Ohrid is considered as one of the deepest and oldest tectonic lake in Europe. A drilling campaign was carried out in 2013 as part of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), within the scope of the Scientific Collaboration on Past Speciation Conditions in Lake Ohrid (SCOPSCO) project. This lake is located at middle altitudes in a rift basin (693 m) surrounded by high mountain ranges and provides an excellent opportunity to study the impact of past climate changes on mid- to high-altitude forests.

In this article, we present new, high-resolution, pollen results obtained from the DEEP site sequence recovered from Lake Ohrid (Albania/FYROM) for the Last Interglacial Complex (LIC), corresponding to Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5) of the marine isotope stratigraphy. LIC covers the period between 130 and 70 ka and includes the Eemian (Last Interglacial, LI) and the succession of stadial and interstadial phases of the Early Last Glacial.