Description
Book SynopsisVolume 32 (2013) of the internationally recognized and acclaimed yearbook series Palaeoecology of Africa' publishes 9 new interdisciplinary scientific papers on former and recent landscape evolution and on past environments of the African continent (e.g. climate change, vegetation dynamics and growing impact of humans on ecosystems). These papers expand horizons and interconnections to various types and methodologies of research on environmental dynamics from the Pliocene up to the present: review articles and regional case studies cover Nigeria, Cameroon, selected areas of the Congo basin, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa. This volume also gives space to researchers from Africa to present their findings to a wider international audience.
Today, by growing awareness of the worldwide impact of Global Change, it has become obvious that aside of the northern and southern hemisphere Polar region also the environmental setting in Africa was subject to considerable changes ov
Table of Contents
Palaeoecological conditions in the Sokoto basin and the deep offshore Niger Delta (Nigeria) evidenced by benthonic foraminiferal microfauna
A hazy shade of winter: Late Pleistocene environments and behavioural adaptations at Blombos Cave, South Africa
Late Quaternary valley and slope deposits and their palaeoenvironmental significance in the Upper Congo Basin, Central Africa
Lake level Changes of Barombi Mbo (Cameroon) during late Quaternary. Compared catchment and crater lake records
Palaeoenvironmental comments on a Late Holocene debris-flow process in Lake Assom (Adamawa, Cameroon)
Palaeoenvironmental Characteristics of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo and Chitimwe Beds (N-Malawi)
Why ‘Younger Dryas’? Why not ‘Antarctic Cold Reversal’? Eksteenfontein revisited
Historical and Present-Day Landscape Degradation in Anambra State (Nigeria): Impacts and Remedial Measures
Climate change analysis across rainfall-discharge variability in selected river catchments of Kenya and Central African Republic
