[HTML][HTML] Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies

M Chevalier, BAS Davis, O Heiri, H Seppä… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

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 …

Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

M Walker, MJ Head, J Lowe… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Holocene, which currently spans~ 11 700 years, is the shortest series/epoch within the
geological time scale (GTS), yet it contains a rich archive of evidence in stratigraphical …

Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago

A Mackay, SJ Armitage, EM Niespolo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Africa's Middle Stone Age preserves sporadic evidence for novel behaviours
among early modern humans, prompting a range of questions about the influence of social …

Classifying and mapping rainfall seasonality in South Africa: A review

SJ Roffe, JM Fitchett, CJ Curtis - South African Geographical Journal …, 2019 - journals.co.za
Across South Africa, many activities warrant consistent and predictable rainfall patterns
which can be achieved from classification of rainfall seasonality into homogeneous zones …

African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

DJ Nash, G De Cort, BM Chase, D Verschuren… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The African continent is characterised by a wide range of hydroclimate regimes, ranging
from humid equatorial West Africa to the arid deserts in the northern and southern …

The dynamic relationship between temperate and tropical circulation systems across South Africa since the last glacial maximum

BM Chase, M Chevalier, A Boom, AS Carr - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
A fundamental and long-standing question of southern African palaeoclimatology is the way
tropical and temperate climate system dynamics have influenced rainfall regimes across the …

Determining the drivers of long‐term aridity variability: a southern African case study

M Chevalier, BM Chase - Journal of Quaternary Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper highlights the importance of differentiating between precipitation amount and
moisture availability ('humidity'/'aridity') when considering proxy records of climate change …

Vegetation and climate dynamics during the last glacial period in the fynbos-afrotemperate forest ecotone, southern Cape, South Africa

LJ Quick, ME Meadows, MD Bateman, KL Kirsten… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite the southern Cape's great climatic and botanical significance (occupying the
transition between the temperate and subtropical circulation systems and forming part of a …

Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa

B Davies, MJ Power, DR Braun, MJ Douglass… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, fire is a primary agent for modifying environments through the long-term coupling
of human and natural systems. In southern Africa, control of fire by humans has been …