Research on Paleoclimate, Fossil Fauna and Paleoenvironment throughout Quaternary

Dear Colleagues,

The Quaternary is a unique period in Earth’s history, and not only because it was the time when mankind evolved both biologically and culturally to eventually dominate our planet. The progressive cooling experienced by the Earth already since the Oligocene reached its climax in the Quaternary. The glaciation/interglacial cycles that finally occurred over the last few million years shaped the entire biosphere and geosphere. It was a period of dynamic changes for the natural environment, in climate, a time when many species evolved and became extinct, when wide-scale migrations led many taxa to disperse throughout the world. The study of these changes at many different scales is the subject of this special volume.

This Special Issue will be devoted to a wide spectrum of research focusing on the Quaternary. Topics of particular relevance and interest include changes in the climate and the natural environment during this period, as well as the evolution of fauna communities and individual taxa, biostratigraphy, paleogeography, phylogeography and animal migrations, with a particular emphasis on human impact.

We are inviting you to submit a paper to this Special Issue, "Research on Paleoclimate, Fossil Fauna and Paleoenvironment throughout Quaternary". This issue will present research results on the subject of the Quaternary concerning paleogeography, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, phylogeography and to DNA studies of Quaternary species. The evolution of faunal assemblies, especially under human influence, also involves human–animal interactions in the Quaternary. This Special Issue will be open to submission from any global region.

Dr. Krzysztof Stefaniak
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Quaternary is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Qaternary fauna
• archeofauna in fossil records
• phylogeography
• paleoecology
• fossil DNA
• paleobiogeography
• biostratygraphy
• migrations
• species extinctions
• human impact in Quaternary