Biomarker approaches for reconstructing terrestrial environmental change

GN Inglis, T Bhattacharya… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The response of the terrestrial biosphere to warming remains one of the most poorly
understood and quantified aspects of the climate system. One way to test the behavior of the …

Late Cenozoic Faunal and Ecological Change in Africa

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Africa's fossil record of late Cenozoic mammals documents considerable ecological and
evolutionary changes through time. Here, we synthesize those changes in the context of the …

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) … - Science, 2023 - science.org
The geological record encodes the relationship between climate and atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) over long and short timescales, as well as potential drivers of evolutionary …

Nonlinear rainfall effects on savanna fire activity across the African Humid Period

AT Karp, KT Uno, MA Berke, JM Russell… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fire is a key ecosystem process in tropical and subtropical savannas, with a varying role that
depends on hydroclimate but also on feedbacks between fire and vegetation. In savannas …

Madagascar's grassy biomes are ancient and there is much to learn about their ecology and evolution

WJ Bond, JA Silander, J Ratsirarson - Journal of Biogeography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For most of the 20th century, the hypothesis was accepted that Madagascar's extensive
grass‐dominated ecosystems were of anthropogenic origin, carved out of pristine forests …

Asian monsoon and vegetation shift: evidence from the Siwalik succession of India

H Bhatia, G Srivastava, P Adhikari, S Tao… - Geological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Quantitative Miocene climate and vegetation data from the Siwalik succession of western
Nepal indicate that the development of the Indian summer monsoon has had an impact …

Northern Norway paleofire records reveal two distinct phases of early human impacts on fire activity

RG Topness, RS Vachula, NL Balascio… - The …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Paleofire records document fire's response to climate, ecosystem changes, and human-
activity, offering insights into climate-fire-human relationships and the potential response of …

Effect of burning on the distribution pattern and isotopic composition of plant biomolecules: Implications for paleoecological studies

V Sarangi, S Roy, P Sanyal - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
In fire-prone biomes, the interpretation of paleoecological proxies is subjected to
uncertainties since the plant biomarkers/molecules are thermally modified during vegetation …

Spatially calibrating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as proxies of area burned by vegetation fires: Insights from comparisons of historical data and …

RS Vachula, AT Karp, EH Denis, NL Balascio… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many regions worldwide have experienced increasing wildfire activity in recent years and
climate changes are predicted to result in more frequent and severe fires. Reconstruction of …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene fire dynamics and their climatic controls on the southern Cape coast of South Africa-A 7.2 ka multi-proxy record from the peatland Vankervelsvlei

P Strobel, T Henning, M Bliedtner, SG Mosher… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural phenomenon along South Africa's southern Cape coast, but identifying its
climatic drivers has been a subject of considerable debate. This study investigates the …