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Numerous European species endured glaciation events in the Mediterranean region, though Extra-Mediterranean refugia like the Carpathian Mountains have also been described3,4.

Some scientists, however, say that Neandertals hung on in "refugia" like southern Spain and Gibraltar until as late as 32,000 years ago.

Because the team has not been able to find cryptotephra that far west, "we cannot rule out the survival of Neandertals post-CI and post Heinrich … in refugia like the Iberian Peninsula," says co-author Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.

Haplotype data suggested the presence of multiple glacial refugia; the tropical populations likely acted as refugia during the Quaternary glacial and interglacial events, while two other refugia were maintained in the Midwest and north of the Appalachian Mountains.

"They like to be in little refugia," Mr. Schuler said, describing in intimate-sounding terms the cozy coves and sheltered niches where mussels love to hide.

For each of these groups the probable directions of range expansion from the putative glacial refugia in which they are likely to have differentiated could be inferred from decreasing diversity trends when moving away from the putative refugia.

T. geyeri seems to have survived in local refugia the reduction of the favourable steppe-like habitat due to climatic extremes during the pleniglacial and interstadial periods, as it is the case today.

This habitat might hence have served as 'Pleistocene refugia' when surrounding habitat was dry like on other sky islands ([38], but see [48]).

The picturesque limestone karsts across the Sino-Vietnamese border are renowned biodiversity hotspot, distinguished for extremely high endemism of calciphilous plants restricted to caves and cave-like microhabitats that have functioned as biological refugia on the otherwise harsh habitats.

Many of them are relicts living in refugia, akin to nursing homes, whereas others are newly evolved lineages in areas that are like nurseries.

Pleistocene refugia, postglacial expansion and colonization routes.