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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing and forecasting rainfall patterns in the Manga-Bawku area, northeastern Ghana: Possible implication of climate change

P Dankwa, E Cudjoe, EEY Amuah, RW Kazapoe… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding rainfall processes is crucial in addressing several hydrological challenges
that have both positive and negative impacts on agriculture, climate change, and natural …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing Late Quaternary precipitation and its source on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: A multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from …

P Strobel, M Bliedtner, AS Carr, J Struck… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Quaternary climate history of South Africa and, in particular, potential
changes in atmospheric circulation have been subject to considerable debate. To some …

Fire drives major Holocene vegetation shifts between subtropical and Mediterranean‐type ecosystems: a case study from a biodiversity hotspot in South Africa

LJ Quick, BM Chase, M Chevalier, BA Grobler… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fire plays a pivotal role in driving ecological shifts between Mediterranean‐type vegetation
and subtropical ecosystems in South Africa. This study investigates long‐term environmental …

Vegetation and climate change during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: Pollen evidence from Bo …

N Du Plessis, BM Chase, LJ Quick… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents continuous, high resolution fossil pollen and microcharcoal records
from Bo Langvlei, a lake in the Wilderness Embayment on South Africa's southern Cape …

A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa

LJ Quick, BM Chase, AS Carr, M Chevalier… - Quaternary …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The southwestern Cape of South Africa is a particularly dynamic region in terms of long-term
climate change. We analysed fossil pollen from a 25,000 year sediment core taken from a …

[HTML][HTML] Tropical forcing and ENSO dominate Holocene climates in South Africa's southern Cape

BM Chase, A Boom, AS Carr, PJ Reimer - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper explores the Holocene climatic dynamics of South Africa's southern Cape, a
region that supports a large proportion of the Greater Cape Floristic Region and contains an …

Holocene environmental change along the central Namib Desert escarpment derived from hyrax and owl dung

L Scott, G Gil-Romera, E Marais, GA Brook - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fossil pollen and geochemical sequences from a series of hyrax dung deposits from rock
shelters along the eastern margin of the central Namib Desert shed light on the Holocene …

Terrestrial temperature evolution of southern Africa during the late Pleistocene and Holocene: Evidence from the Mfabeni Peatland

S Fietz, A Baker, CS Miller, BDA Naafs… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The scarcity of suitable high-resolution archives, such as ancient natural lakes, that span
beyond the Holocene, hinders long-term late Quaternary temperature reconstructions in …