Katerine Escobar-Torrezhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5941-7079,^1,2,*,** Raquel Franco Cassinohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9974-5744,^2,*** Marie-Pierre Ledruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8079-9320<sup>1,****

1</sup>Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), Université de Montpellier-CNRS-IRD-EPHE, Montpellier, France
²Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

^*CONTACT Katerine Escobar-Torrez katerine.escobartorrez@ird.fr Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, ISEM (UMR 226–IRD/CNRS/UM2), 34095 Montpellier, Cedex 05, France
^**KATERINE ESCOBAR-TORREZ is a PhD student at the University of Montpellier, France. During her previous training, she obtained her licenciate (2016) and master's (2020) degrees in biology at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia. With an interest in ecological processes and the effect of changes as a result of natural and anthropogenic disturbances, she focuses her studies on the evolution of late Quaternary landscapes in the Altiplano and Bolivian Cerrado, evaluating palynological records in wetlands. Currently, the main objectives of her PhD research are vegetation–climate–fire interactions in the Brazilian Cerrado during the last glacial and interglacial cycles, studies that are being developed at the Institute of Evolution Sciences (ISEM, France) in collaboration with the Institute de Recherche pour le Dévelopment (IRD, France).
^***RAQUEL FRANCO CASSINO holds a degree in geological engineering from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP, Brazil, 2007), a master's in geology from the Institute of Geosciences at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil, 2011), a PhD in geology from the University of Brasília (UnB, Brazil) and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (France). She has experience in geosciences, with an emphasis on paleontology and palynology, working mainly on the following topics: palynology of the Cerrado, Quaternary paleoenvironments and paleoclimate of the late Quaternary. She is currently a professor at the Department of Geology at the Federal University of Ouro Preto.
^****MARIE-PIERRE LEDRU is a palynologist investigating neotropical paleoecology at the Institut de Recherche pour le Dévelopment (IRD, France). Her main research areas are tropical forest dynamics and biodiversity responses in relation to Quaternary climatic changes. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Evolution Sciences (ISEM, France) at the University of Montpellier (France).