Downscaling last glacial maximum climate over southern Africa

FA Engelbrecht, CW Marean, RM Cowling… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
We conducted the first dynamic downscaling of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate over
southern Africa using a regional climate model. Eight coupled global climate model (CGCM) …

Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period): two new Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) …

M Walker, MJ Head, M Berkelhammer… - Episodes Journal of …, 2018 - episodes.org
The Holocene is probably the most intensively studied series/epoch within the geological
record, and embodies a wide array of geomorphological, climatic, biotic and archaeological …

A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

A Cooper, CSM Turney, J Palmer, A Hogg, M McGlone… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Geological archives record multiple reversals of Earth's magnetic poles, but the global
impacts of these events, if any, remain unclear. Uncertain radiocarbon calibration has limited …

The Last Glacial Maximum climate at Boomplaas Cave, South Africa

JT Faith, BM Chase, J Pargeter - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
With a rich sequence of floral and faunal remains spanning the past> 65,000 years,
Boomplaas Cave is among the more important paleoenvironmental archives from South …

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

C Nolan, JT Overpeck, JRM Allen, PM Anderson… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by
ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred …

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 …

[图书][B] Global groundwater: source, scarcity, sustainability, security, and solutions

A Mukherjee, BR Scanlon, A Aureli, S Langan, H Guo… - 2020 - books.google.com
Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions presents a
compilation of compelling insights into groundwater scenarios within all groundwater …

Paleolakes and socioecological implications of last glacial “greening” of the South African interior

AS Carr, BM Chase, SJ Birkinshaw… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Determining the timing and drivers of Pleistocene hydrological change in the interior of
South Africa is critical for testing hypotheses regarding the presence, dynamics, and …

An extended last glacial maximum in the Southern Hemisphere: A contribution to the SHeMax project

LM Petherick, J Knight, J Shulmeister, H Bostock… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Proxy records from across the Southern Hemisphere show significant local to regional scale
variability in climatic and environmental conditions during late Marine Isotope Stage 3 and …

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 …