The Series publishes interdisciplinary scientific papers on landscape evolution and on former environments of the African continent, e.g. changes in climate and in vegetation cover interconnected to all kinds of environmental dynamics form the Cainozoic up to the present, including since the Late Quaternary the growing infuence of humans in many of the areas studied.
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By Jürgen Runge, William Gosling, Anne-Marie Lézine, Louis Scott
November 29, 2021
This book celebrates the relaunch of the African Pollen Database, presents state-of-the-art of modern and ancient pollen data from sub-Saharan Africa, and promotes Open Access science. Pollen grains are powerful tools for the study of past vegetation dynamics because they preserve well within ...
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By Jürgen Runge
October 23, 2019
This book is volume 33 of the yearbook series ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’ presenting the outcome of a ‘tribute conference’ to the internationally recognized South African researcher and palynologist Professor Louis Scott. He has recently retired, but is continuing his active research career. The...
By Jürgen Runge
October 06, 2017
During the Neogene – covering the last 23 Million years – the evolution of the environmental setting in Africa was subject to considerable changes. Natural shifts, slow and rapid, evidenced by modifications in palaeogeography, geodynamics, climate, and vegetation have caused repeated and strong ...
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By Jürgen Runge
November 15, 2013
Volume 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 ...
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By Jürgen Runge
May 30, 2012
Founded in 1966, the internationally recognized and acclaimed Series ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’ publishes interdisciplinary scientific papers on landscape evolution and on former environments of the African continent. Beginning with topics such as changes in climate and vegetation cover, the papers ...
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By Jürgen Runge
November 01, 2010
This 30st jubilee volume (2010) of "Palaeoecology of Africa" looks back and reflects the "state of the art" of what is actually known on former African climates and ecosystems in the format of review articles authored by specialists in the field. New research articles on climate and ecosystem ...
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By Roland Baumhauer, Jürgen Runge
February 27, 2009
The environmental setting within the Central Sahara was subject to considerable changes during Late Quaternary, mainly driven by major global climate variations, although human impact increased constantly since Early Holocene. Such global events can be reconstructed with the help of reliefs, ...
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By Jürgen Runge
October 04, 2007
This book consists of scientific papers resulting from an international workshop: ‘Environmental and Cultural Change in West- and Central Africa’ organized by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, March 2006. Problems of Holocene and Late Pleistocene modifications of the rain ...
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By K. Heine, J. Runge
January 01, 2001
These papers derive from a workshop on "Quaternary Sedimentary Records in Central Africa and their Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation", held at the 15th INQUA Congress. They mainly cover the Late Quaternary to Holocene climate and environmental history of today's rainforest regions....
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By Heine Klaus
January 01, 1999
This volume offers comprehensive and up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa....
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By K. Heine
January 01, 1993
Containing 15 contributions. Vegetation associated with the protohistorical mound of 'Mouyssam II' (KNT2) in the Malian Sahel; Late Quaternary mammalian remains from central and eastern Sudan and their palaeoenvironmental significance; On the ages of humid Late Quaternary phases in southern African...
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By K. Heine
January 01, 1989
This volume contains 14 contributions on topics such as hydrology, palaeontology, pedology, sedimentology and glaciations, Holocene geomorphology, Plio/Pleistocene rift evolution in Sahara, Sahel, Kenya, Malawi & S Africa....