Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

R Marchant, S Richer, O Boles, C Capitani… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

[HTML][HTML] 非洲南部赞比西河流域距今30~ 5 ka 的孢粉组合及古气候变化

万正, 张虎才, 聂军胜, 赵永涛, 苗运法, 张晓楠… - 第四纪研究, 2023 - dsjyj.com.cn
非洲东南部晚更新世植被重建及对比研究有助于理解区域气候变化过程和驱动机制.
本研究依托国际大洋发现计划IODP361 航次科学任务所获取的U1477B 海洋钻孔, 对其上部4 …

Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary

JE Tierney, JM Russell, JSS Damsté, Y Huang… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Both Atlantic and Indian Ocean climate dynamics exert influence over tropical African
hydroclimate, producing complex patterns of convergence and precipitation. To isolate the …

Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments

JE Tierney, JM Russell, H Eggermont… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010 - Elsevier
Quantifying past continental temperature changes is an important aspect of paleoclimate
research as it allows us to constrain the amplitude of natural variability, test predictive …

Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa

JC Aleman, A Fayolle, C Favier… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The idea that tropical forest and savanna are alternative states is crucial to how we manage
these biomes and predict their future under global change. Large-scale empirical evidence …

Climatic patterns in equatorial and southern Africa from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

F Gasse, F Chalié, A Vincens, MAJ Williams… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
As part of a wider study of last glacial and deglacial climates in the Southern Hemisphere
continents, we here review terrestrial and near-shore marine records from equatorial and …

Southeast African records reveal a coherent shift from high-to low-latitude forcing mechanisms along the east African margin across last glacial–interglacial transition

M Chevalier, BM Chase - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Late Quaternary climate variability in the southern African subtropics is still only poorly
resolved, with significant complexity and apparent contradictions in the regional dataset. To …

Long-term ecological records and their relevance to climate change predictions for a warmer world

KJ Willis, GM MacDonald - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on biotic responses during intervals of time in the fossil record when the
magnitude and rate of climate change exceeded or were comparable with those predicted to …

Orbital scale vegetation change in Africa

L Dupont - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Palynological records of Middle and Late Pleistocene marine sediments off African shores is
reviewed in order to reveal long-term patterns of vegetation change during climate cycles …

Delimiting tropical mountain ecoregions for conservation

PJ Platts, ND Burgess, RE Gereau… - Environmental …, 2011 - cambridge.org
Ecological regions aggregate habitats with similar biophysical characteristics within well-
defined boundaries, providing spatially consistent platforms for monitoring, managing and …