This paper presents an illustrated guide to the identification of non-pollen palynomorphs
(NPPs) preserved in lake-sediment archives from equatorial East Africa. Modern NPPs were
recovered from recently deposited surface sediment in 20 small crater lakes in western
Uganda, located along environmental gradients of vegetation (moist evergreen and semi-
deciduous forest, wooded and open grass savannah), land use (pastoralism, crop
agriculture, plantations) and lake characteristics (basin morphometry, water chemistry and …