n-Alkane parameters from a deep sea sediment transect off southwest Africa reflect continental vegetation and climate conditions

A Vogts, E Schefuß, T Badewien, J Rullkötter - Organic Geochemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
An isobathic transect of marine surface sediments from 1° N to 28° S off southwest Africa
was used to further evaluate the potential of the chain length distribution and carbon stable …

Reconstructing C3 and C4 vegetation cover using n-alkane carbon isotope ratios in recent lake sediments from Cameroon, Western Central Africa

Y Garcin, E Schefuß, VF Schwab, V Garreta… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
Trees and shrubs in tropical Africa use the C 3 cycle as a carbon fixation pathway during
photosynthesis, while grasses and sedges mostly use the C 4 cycle. Leaf-wax lipids from …

n-Alkane distribution and carbon stable isotope composition in leaf waxes of C3 and C4 plants from Angola

T Badewien, A Vogts, J Rullkötter - Organic Geochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Palaeoenvironmental assessment of past C 3 and C 4 vegetation distributions relies on end
member data from plant analyses. In southwestern Africa, end member data of the carbon …

Sources, transport and deposition of terrestrial organic material: A case study from southwestern Africa

N Herrmann, A Boom, AS Carr, BM Chase… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Southwestern Africa's coastal marine mudbelt, a prominent Holocene sediment package,
provides a valuable archive for reconstructing terrestrial palaeoclimates on the adjacent …

Distribution patterns and stable carbon isotopic composition of alkanes and alkan-1-ols from plant waxes of African rain forest and savanna C3 species

A Vogts, H Moossen, F Rommerskirchen… - Organic …, 2009 - Elsevier
Leaf wax components of terrestrial plants are an important source of biomass in the
geological records of soils, lakes and marine sediments. Relevant to the emerging use of …

Holocene sea level and environmental change on the west coast of South Africa: evidence from plant biomarkers, stable isotopes and pollen

AS Carr, A Boom, BM Chase, ME Meadows… - Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
We present an 8000-year biomarker and stable carbon isotope record from the Verlorenvlei
Estuary, South Africa. We assessed how leaf wax lipids, insoluble macromolecular organic …

Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in arid zone South African flora: Environmental controls, chemotaxonomy and palaeoecological implications

AS Carr, A Boom, HL Grimes, BM Chase… - Organic …, 2014 - Elsevier
The environmental controls on leaf wax n-alkane distributions and associated interpretation
of such distributions in geological archives have long remained rather enigmatic. Studies of …

A comparison of biomarker records of northeast African vegetation from lacustrine and marine sediments (ca. 3.40 Ma)

SJ Feakins, TI Eglinton, PB demenocal - Organic Geochemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
Integrated terrestrial and marine records of northeast African vegetation are needed to
provide long high resolution records of environmental variability with established links to …

Glacial/interglacial changes in southern Africa: Compound‐specific δ13C land plant biomarker and pollen records from southeast Atlantic continental margin …

F Rommerskirchen, G Eglinton… - Geochemistry …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This is part 2 of a study examining southwest African continental margin sediments from nine
sites on a north‐south transect from the Congo Fan (4° S) to the Cape Basin (30° S) …

A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant …

JSS Damsté, D Verschuren, J Ossebaar… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
The debate of climate versus CO2 in controlling the long-term dynamics of tropical African
vegetation has focused on events at the upper tree-line, since the relevant paleodata tend to …