As methods of using ostracods as Quaternary palaeoclimate proxies have developed, so too has a critical awareness of their complexities, potential and limitations. This book combines reviews with presentations of science to form a reference work that can constitute a durable bench-mark in science of Ostracoda and Quaternary climate change.

This volume is a combination of up-to-date reviews covering previous work and summarizing the state of art, with presentations of new, cutting-edge science (data and interpretations as well as methodological developments) to form a major reference work that will constitute a durable benchmark in the science of ostracoda and quaternary climate change.