This paper reviews information on past vegetation of tropical Africa during the Cenozoic,
focused upon the last 10Ma, a time spanning hominid record in Central and East Africa …

Current knowledge of flower visitors and pollination in the Oriental Region is summarised.
Much less is known about pollination than seed dispersal and the coverage of habitats and …

Equatorial rain forests that maintain a balance between speciation and extinction are hot-
spots for studies of biodiversity. Western Ghats in southern India have gained attention due …

Palaeoclimatic estimates of mean annual rainfall in the equatorial highlands of Central East
Africa have been established for the last 40 kyr. The values are inferred from nine fossil …

The prehistoric archaeology of Sri Lanka is of considerable significance for investigations of
the evolution, dispersal and adaptation of our species within a variety of environments …

Hominins evolved in Africa during a period of overall regional cooling, drying, and
increasingly variable climate. Despite prevailing regional aridity since the mid-Miocene, data …

In contrast to the East Asian and African monsoons the Indian monsoon is still poorly
documented throughout the last climatic cycle (last 135,000 years). Pollen analysis from two …

Modern pollen dispersal studies from the phytogeographically and climatically different
regions [the Peninsular and extra-Peninsular regions (the Himalaya), the Ganga …

Fossil assemblages reflect the parental communities that produced them, and are in turn
associated with specific environmental conditions. Thus, climatic and environmental …

Paleopalynological records of 1.1 m deep lacustrine sediment profile from the central Indian
Core Monsoon Zone (CMZ) have provided a prolonged warming trend over the last ca …