Despite the importance of soil organic matter (SOM) in the global carbon cycle, there remain
many open questions regarding its formation and preservation. The study of individual …

Southern Africa's unique global position has given rise to a dynamic climate influenced by
large sea surface temperature gradients and seasonal fluctuations in the Inter Tropical …

For a detailed reconstruction of historic upper forest line (UFL) positions, new proxies in
addition to traditional pollen and vegetation analyses are needed. If the straight-chain lipid …

Accurate reconstructions of past hydrological variability are essential for understanding the
climate history of the tropics. In tropical Africa, the relative proportion of vegetation utilizing …

Organic matter carried by rivers and deposited in continental and marine sediments contains
valuable information on past environmental conditions and their impact on the terrestrial …

Proxy environmental records have been obtained for the last 160 kyr from the well-studied
ODP Site 658, ca. 200 km West of Cap Blanc, NW Africa (20° 5′ N, 18° 35′ W; 2263 m …

The n-alkane distributions from total lipid extracts of ten modern Sphagnum moss species,
collected from a suite of ombrotrophic bogs across Europe, were determined using gas …

Specific n‐alkanes and n‐alkanoic acids are commonly used as biomarkers in
paleoenvironmental reconstruction, yet any individual homologue may originate from …

Reconstructing vegetation at hominin fossil sites provides us critical information about
hominin palaeoenvironments and the potential role of climate in their evolution. Here we …

Leaf chemical and spectral properties of 162 canopy species were measured at 11 tropical
forest sites along a 6024 mm precipitation/yr and 8.7° C climate gradient in Queensland …