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- Library Collection RecordThe long-term Quaternary vegetation and climate history in South Africa's savanna biome since ca. 190,000 yr BP, is elucidated by the palynological record of lake sediments in the Tswaing Crater…Publication Date 1999
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe eastern margins of the Great Karoo, South Africa, represent a transition zone between the semi-arid shrublands of the Karoo to the west and the moister grasslands of the east. For this reason,…Publication Date 2002
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection Record13C/12C ratios in plants depend on factors like temperature, evaporation or seasonal moisture distribution. Fluctuations of 13C/12C in Procavia capensis (hyrax) dung samples from different vegetation…Publication Date 2000
- hyrax
- dung deposits
- stable carbon isotope
- Late Quaternary
- Vegetation Change
- palaeobotany
- palaeoenvironmental data
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSediments from Sacred Lake and Lake Nkunga on the northeastern flank of Mount Kenya have a sequential palaeoclimatic and palæoenvironmental record covering most of the Late Quaternary period: from…Publication Date 1999
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA diverse assemblage of terrestrial plant palynomorphs is reported from Koingnaas, a site in the Namaqualand region of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. In excess of one hundred palynomorph…Publication Date 2001
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPleistocene to Holocene as well as recent trends in climate have an influence on the composition of savanna-forest vegetation fringes in Africa, dominated mainly by savanna (C4) and mainly forest (C3…Publication Date 2002
- Holocene
- palaeoenvironment
- Rainforest-savanna boundary
- Fluvial dynamics
- Alluvial soils
- Central Africa
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the Otjiwarongo region (Northern Namibia), Vertisol-Kastanozem-Calcisol soil associations occur as patches of several hundred hectares in extent. They have formed in fine-grained Mid-Holocene…Publication Date 2002
- Kastanozems
- Namibia
- soil erosion
- Environmental change
- Holocene
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper begins by examining the importance of southern African Quaternary environmental change. The Quaternary is characterised by repeated climatic changes of considerable amplitude; analysis of…Publication Date 2001
- Quaternary
- Landform evolution
- Environmental change
- human impact
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- palaeoecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordData from stalagmites in the Makapansgat Valley, South Africa, document regional climatic change in southern Africa in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. A new TIMS U-series dated stalagmite…Publication Date 2003
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe distribution of pollen in marine sediments is used to reconstruct pathways of terrigenous input to the oceans and provides a record of vegetation change on adjacent continents. The wind transport…Publication Date 2003
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo provide information on the nature of the plant food diet probably available to Australopithecus africanus in the Makapansgat area, under climatic conditions similar to those at present, wild plant…Publication Date 1981
- Makapansgat
- Wild Plant Foods
- Early Hominid Niche
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe stable carbon isotope ratio of fossil tooth enamel carbonate is determined by the photosynthetic systems of plants at the base of the animal's foodweb. In subtropical Africa, grasses and…Publication Date 2003
- Australopithecines
- South Africa
- carbon isotopes
- diet
- C4 plants
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordStudies of the auriferous Witwatersrand placers and associated rocks have revealed that certain palaeo-environments, especially braided fluvial, are particularly well represented in this part of the…Publication Date 1998
- palaeo-environments
- gold placers
- pre-vegetation
- braided streams
- Witwatersrand
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPhytolith investigations of surface soil samples and of soil profiles from rain forest soils of northeastern and eastern D.R. Congo (former Zaire, tropical humid Africa) and from a grass-covered Bas-…Publication Date 1999
- opal phytoliths
- Central Africa
- Vegetation history
- phytolith classification
- phytolith spectra
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordModern soil samples from Western Uganda, from a range of ten plant communities belonging to five African phytogeographical regions and distributed along an altitudinal gradient from 650 m (grass…Publication Date 1997
- palaeobotany
- palynology
- modern pollen spectra
- vegetation communities
- altitudinal and physiognomical gradient
- Correspondence analysis
- Western Uganda
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA new diatom record from Lake Victoria's Pilkington Bay, subsampled at 21- to 25-year intervals and supported by 20 AMS dates, reveals a ~10,000 calendar year environmental history that is…Publication Date 2003
- Africa
- Diatoms
- Lake Victoria
- Monsoons
- Paleoclimate
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe reconstruction of African tropical grassland history during the late Holocene can be carried out using phytolith analysis. Fossil phytolith assemblages from Lake Guiers, in the Sahelian region of…Publication Date 1997
- phytoliths
- tracers
- Paleoenvironment
- Holocene
- savannas
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe age-constrained pollen data of a sedimentary sequence from the crater Lake Masoko, southern Tanzania (9°20'S, 33°45'E, 770 m), display a continuous record of vegetation for the past…Publication Date 2003
- palaeobotany
- pollen
- Late Holocene
- southern Tanzania
- Zambezian woodland
- climate change
- human activity
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordStomatal size and density were measured from graminoid cuticular fragments extracted from dated sediments in two tropical-montane crater lakes on Mount Kenya. The sediments had been dated in other…Publication Date 2002
- stomata
- CO2
- glacial-interglacial transition
- grasses
- Mount Kenya
- East Africa
- Late Quaternary
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen evidence suggests that grasslands were well established in southern Africa by the Late Tertiary. Evidence for grassland composition in the region during the Quaternary includes published…Publication Date 2002
- C3/C4 grasses
- Last Glacial Maximum
- pollen
- phytoliths
- isotopes
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis research addresses the potential contribution of strontium isotopes to the reconstruction of early hominid behavior at the Swartkrans site in the Sterkfontein Valley of Gauteng Provence (…Publication Date 1998
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSr and Ba levels of two proximal aragonite speleothems from Cold Air Cave, South Africa, are examined at [mu]m resolution. A compositional map derived from parallel secondary ion mass spectrometry…Publication Date 2003
- South Africa
- Cold Air Cave
- Speleothem
- SIMS
- ion probe
- palaeoenvironments
- palaeobotany
- rainfall
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouthern African savannas are mixed plant communities where C3 trees co-exist with C4 grasses. Here foliar ?15N and ?13C were used as indicators of nitrogen uptake and of water use efficiency to…Publication Date 2010
- stable isotopes
- soil nitrogen
- soil carbon
- aridity
- C3 plants
- C4 plants
- savanna
- Soil Condition
- grasslands
- water use efficiency
- rainfall
- plant autecology
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe dietary regimes of 15 ungulate species from the middle Pleistocene levels of the hominid-bearing locality of Elandsfontein, South Africa, are investigated using the mesowear technique. Previous…Publication Date 2009
- Elandsfontein
- Mid-Pleistocene
- ungulates
- Mesowear
- palaeoenvironment
- palaeobotany
- Elandsfontein
- Western Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo investigate land-sea interactions during deglaciation, we compared proxies for continental (pollen percentages and accumulation rates) and marine conditions (dinoflagellate cyst percentages and…Publication Date 2004
- pollen
- Dinoflagellate cysts
- Alkenones
- SST
- Deglaciation
- Southwestern Africa
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPalynological and sedimentological data from a core extracted from Lake Eteza shed new light on the Holocene vegetation and climate history in KwaZulu-Natal and can be linked to regional and global…Publication Date 2010
- forest reconstruction
- Vegetation history
- southern hemisphere
- African coast
- human impact
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen analysis of a 12.8-m-long core (R96-I) from the southern basin of Lake Rukwa (Tanzania, 8°S, 33°E, 793 m a.s.l.) provides new information on the vegetation history of central eastern Africa…Publication Date 2005
- palaeobotany
- pollen
- Late Quaternary
- southern Tanzania
- vegetation dynamics
- lake levels
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo reconstruct the response of vegetation to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial we have compiled pollen records from the circum-Atlantic tropics between 23° 176' N and 23° 176…Publication Date 2010
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- South America
- Library Collection RecordPollen analysis of material from a variety of sediment types including those from ponds, streams, a rock-shelter and hyrax dung accumulations in the Blydefontein Basin (31°09'S, 25°05'E,…Publication Date 2005
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe ReSaKo project undertook extended fieldwork across southern Cameroon to explore the palaeoenvironmental information recorded in the alluvial sediments of equatorial African rivers. 160 hand-…Publication Date 2011
- Alluvial sediments
- Palaeosurfaces
- Equatorial Africa
- West African monsoon
- Late Pleistocene
- Fluvial rain forest refuges
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPollen and charcoal data generated from a 1469 cm core, radiocarbon dated to 26,430 14C yr BP, recovered from Rumuiku Swamp on the southeast of Mount Kenya, are used to document changes in the…Publication Date 2009
- charcoal
- Holocene
- Last Glacial Maximum
- pollen
- Younger Dryas
- palaeobotany
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPaleoenvironmental records derived from pollen, fungal spores, and microscopic charcoal from Lake Baringo, Kenya, reveal a largely dry environment in the East African region since AD 1650. The dry…Publication Date 2009
- Paleoenvironmental changes
- palynology
- land degradation
- Radiocarbon inversion
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- palaeoenvironmental data
- East Africa
- Library Collection RecordA paleo-environmental record covering the last 16 ka (16,000 cal yrs BP) from the eastern areas of the summer rainfall region in South Africa is presented. This area is until now sparsely…Publication Date 2009
- climate change
- pollen
- stable isotopes
- palaeobotany
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe carbon isotope signature of fossil phytoliths (silica bodies produced in abundance in the tissue of grasses) presents a promising tool for reconstructing the biogeography of C3 and C4 grasses…Publication Date 2004
- phytoliths
- carbon isotopes
- C3/C4 grasses
- grasslands
- paleoecology
- palaeobotany
- palaeoecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSome of the earliest evidence for modern human behavior has been recovered from the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Archaeological and paleontological sites in the Western Cape are typically…Publication Date 2010
- Modern human behavior
- paleoecology
- Glacial environments
- Middle Stone Age
- Later Stone Age
- palaeobotany
- Western Cape Province
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordStable carbon isotope analyses have shown that South African australopiths did not have exclusively frugivorous diets, but also consumed significant quantities of C4 foods such as grasses, sedges, or…Publication Date 2005
- Hominins
- Paleodiet
- carbon isotopes
- Sedges
- Termites
- Kruger National Park
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBurnt daga structures in Iron Age villages serve as proxies for severe drought on the plateau of southern Africa. The distribution of burnt daga remains in two other rainfall areas, KwaZulu-Natal and…Publication Date 2010
- Burnt daga
- Cultural proxies for drought
- El Nino
- Iron age of south-eastern Africa
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- drought
- rainfall
- south-eastern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe most common grass phytoliths from "Zambezian" miombos are described here for the first time. Their potential for long term preservation in sediments makes them a useful tool in the…Publication Date 2010
- Poaceae Phytoliths
- Great African Rift
- Mozambique
- Niassa
- Miombo woodlands
- Paleoenvironment
- discriminant analysis
- principal component analysis
- and Cluster Analysis
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSpanning the period from 74-58 160;ka, and being broadly coeval with marine oxygen isotope stage 4 (MIS 4), the Still Bay and Howiesons Poort industries represent important phases in the development…Publication Date 2010
- palaeoenvironment
- Still bay
- Howiesons Poort
- Marine oxygen isotope stage 4
- Modern human behaviour
- palaeobotany
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe use of pollen analysis of herbivore middens in arid and semi-arid areas has facilitated palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and interpretation in places where this may otherwise be impossible due…Publication Date 2010
- Fynbos
- Hyrax midden
- palynology
- southern hemisphere
- Stable isotope analysis
- Vegetation history
- winter rainfall zone
- palaeobotany
- palaeoecology
- Western Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Blantyre City Area is part of the African savanna in southern Malawi. Sedimentological, geomorphological, chemical and mineralogical studies were conducted to create a lithofacies terrain model.…Publication Date 2005
- Applied geomorphology
- Sedimentology
- savanna
- environment
- Cenozoic
- Malawi
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe sediments of Holocene floodplain banks in several river catchments in the southern Cape region, South Africa, were sedimentologically investigated and radiometrically dated. The study resulted in…Publication Date 2010
- Floodplain formation
- fluvial geomorphology
- Environmental change
- palaeobotany
- Gourits River basin
- Cape region
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordLittle is known about the sequence of climate and environmental change in southern Africa during the last glacial period, in spite of the intimations from records, such as Antarctic ice cores and…Publication Date 2009
- Late Pleistocene
- climate variability
- stalagmites
- stable isotopes
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordNon-equilibrium processes in savannas are poorly understood because little data is available on how tree abundance has changed over long periods of time. Here I analyse fossil pollen and charcoal…Publication Date 2004
- pollen
- charcoal
- Cyclical
- Phase and transition
- stochastic
- Fourier analysis
- savanna
- plant autecology
- palaeobotany
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPrevious archaeological and palaeoenvironmental work relating to the late Quaternary of the Lesotho highlands, southern AFrica, is reviewed. Emphasis is placed upon the region's importance for…Publication Date 1996
- palaeobotany
- palaeoenvironmental data
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEvidence on late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the western and southwestern Cape of South Africa has facilitated detailed reconstructions mainly for the mountains, where organic sediment…Publication Date 1996
- palaeobotany
- palaeoecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Namib and Kalahari deserts preserve evidence of a long history of aridification in southern Africa. The earliest sedimentation within the Kalahari Basin dates to the Late Cretaceous, but the…Publication Date 1993
- palaeobotany
- palaeoclimate
- palaeoecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Pliocene epoch represents an important transition from a climate regime with high-frequency, low-amplitude oscillations when the Northern Hemisphere lacked substantial ice sheets, to the typical…Publication Date 1994
- palaeobotany
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe development of savanna-type grasslands is a relatively recent phenomena in East Africa. The stable carbon isotopic composition of paleosol carbonates from fossil localities in East Africa show…Publication Date 1992
- palaeobotany
- grasslands
- savanna
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe general characteristics of global vegetation during the middle Pliocene warm period can be reconstructed from fossil pollen and plant megafossil data. The largest differences between Pliocene…Publication Date 1996
- palaeoclimate
- palaeobotany
- Africa