... Europe: the Eurasian Plain The colonisation by trees of the Eurasian Plain during interglacials reflecteddifferences in source areas of individual species, different rates of migration andalso in the ... 2002). Corresponding altitude shifts in vegetation occurred in the major mountain blocks (Wooller et al., 2003). The Sahara changed dramatically during these cycles. During the last inter-glacial, ... aminimum or inhibited altogether.Further east, on the Russian Plain, the dense temperate forest of the last interglacial maximum was replaced by open, harsh, loess-steppe with the onsetof the...