A multi-proxy reconstruction of a sediment core from the Tatos basin in the Mauritian
lowlands reveals a dynamic environmental history during the last 8000 years. Under …

The island of Mauritius offers the opportunity to study the poorly understood vegetation
response to climate change on a small tropical oceanic island. A high-resolution pollen …

Daily gridded precipitation data, between years 1951 and 2007, obtained from APHRODITE
database, were analyzed to regionalize precipitation regimes in Iran country. The S–mode of …

This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism
and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and …

Introduced species can exert disproportionately negative effects on island ecosystems, but
their potential role as food for native consumers is poorly studied. Telfair's skinks are …

The variability of rainfall has considerable implications on model parameter estimation and
calibration, which may lead to a large degree of uncertainty in model output from climate …

There is growing evidence of changes in the timing of important ecological events, such as
flowering in plants and reproduction in animals, in response to climate change, with …

The island of Mauritius in the Mascarenes has already suffered high levels of extinction, and
habitat destruction and invasive alien species have pushed many of the remaining endemic …

The “4.2 ka event” is frequently described as a major global climate anomaly between 4.2
and 3.9 ka, which defines the beginning of the current Meghalayan age in the Holocene …

The isolated Mascarene Islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues are situated in the
southwestern Indian Ocean. All are volcanic in origin and have never been connected to …