Holocene temperature in the Iberian Peninsula reconstructed studying insect subfossils

Remains of chironomid sub fossils, a type of insects similar to mosquitoes, were used to reconstruct the temperature of the Iberian Peninsula in the Holocene, the geological period that goes from 11000 years ago until now. The results of the study demonstrate some of the climate patterns of the Holocene brought by other methodologies, a rise of temperature  in the beginning and the end of the period, higher temperature during the Holocene Climate and a decline of temperatures after the beginning of the Late Holocene.