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. Considered one of the most significant climate reorganizations of the Cenozoic period, the Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT; ca. 34.44–33.65) is characterized by global cooling and the first major glacial advance on Antarctica. In the southern high latitudes, the EOT coolingis primarily recorded in the marine realm, and its extent and effect on theterrestrial climate and vegetation are poorly documented. Here, we presentnew, well-dated, continuous, high-resolution palynological (sporomorph) data and quantitative sporomorph-based climate estimates recovered from the East Tasman Plateau (ODP Site 1172) to reconstruct climate and vegetationdynamics from the late Eocene (37.97 Ma) to the early Oligocene (33.06 Ma). Our results indicate three major climate transitions and four vegetationcommunities occupying Tasmania under different precipitation and temperature regimes: (i) a warm-temperate Nothofagus–Podocarpaceae-dominated rainforest with paratropical elements from 37.97 to 37.52 Ma; (ii) a cool-temperate Nothofagus-dominatedrainforest with secondary Podocarpaceae rapidly expanding and taking overregions previously occupied by the warmer taxa between 37.306 and 35.60 Ma;(iii) fluctuation between warm-temperate–paratropical taxa and cooltemperate forest from 35.50 to 34.49 Ma, followed by a cool phase across theEOT (34.30–33.82 Ma); and (iv) a post-EOT (earliest Oligocene) recoverycharacterized by a warm-temperate forest association from 33.55 to 33.06 Ma.Coincident with changes in the stratification of water masses and sequestrationof carbon from surface water in the Southern Ocean, our sporomorph-basedtemperature estimates between 37.52 and 35.60 Ma (phase ii) showed2–3 ∘C terrestrial cooling. The unusual fluctuation betweenwarm and cold temperate forest between 35.50 to 34.59 Ma is suggested to be linked to the initial deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway, allowing eastern Tasmania to come under the influence of warm water associated with the proto-Leeuwin Current (PLC). Further to the above, our terrestrial data show the mean annual temperature declining by about 2 ∘C across theEOT before recovering in the earliest Oligocene. This phenomenon issynchronous with regional and global cooling during the EOT and linked todeclining pCO2. However, the earliest Oligocene climate rebound along eastern Tasmania is linked to a transient recovery of atmospheric pCO2 and sustained deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway, promoting PLC throughflow. Thethree main climate transitional events across the studied interval (lateEocene–earliest Oligocene) in the Tasmanian Gateway region suggest thatchanges in ocean circulation due to accelerated deepening of the TasmanianGateway may not have been solely responsible for the changes in terrestrialclimate and vegetation dynamics; a series of regional and global events, including a change in the stratification of water masses, sequestration of carbon from surface waters, and changes in pCO2, may have also played vital roles.

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