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 …

To reconstruct past environmental changes, a range of indirect or proxy approaches can be
applied to Quaternary archives. Here, we review the complementary and novel insights that …

The gradient of air temperature with elevation (the temperature lapse rate) in the tropics is
predicted to become less steep during the coming century as surface temperature rises …

Abstract The Chew Bahir Drilling Project (CBDP) aims to test possible linkages between
climate and evolution in Africa through the analysis of sediment cores that have recorded …

Reconstructing hydrological variability is critical for understanding Lake Victoria's ecosystem
history, the evolution of its diverse endemic fish community, the dynamics of vegetation in …

Deciphering paleoclimate from lake sediments is a challenge due to the complex
relationship between climate parameters and sediment composition. Here we show the links …

Tropical Africa experienced large changes in hydroclimatic conditions since the Last Glacial
Maximum (LGM),∼ 26.5 to 19 thousand years (ka or kyr) ago. The hydrogen isotopic …

Reconstructions of ecosystem dynamics in tropical East Africa during the latest Pleistocene
and the Holocene provide important long-term ecological insights, but so far, only a few …

Historic discussions of climate often suggested that it caused societies to have certain
qualities. In the 19th-century, imperial representations of the world environment frequently …

From the end of the last glacial stage until the mid-Holocene, large areas of arid and semi-
arid North Africa were much wetter than present, during the interval that is known as the …