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New studies on former and recent landscape changes in Africa /

"This book treats former and recent landscape evolution and past environments of the African continent (e.g. climate change, vegetation dynamics and growing impact of humans on ecosystems) and will be of interest to all concerned with low latitudes ecosystem changes and their respective interpr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Runge, Jürgen, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : CRC Press/Balkema, [2013]
Colección:Palaeoecology of Africa.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Chapter 1. Palaeoecological conditions in the Sokoto basin and the deep offshore Niger delta (Nigeria) evidenced by Benthonic foraminiferal microfauna / Olugbenga A. Boboye & Izuchukwu M. Akaegbobi
  • chapter 2. A hazy shade of winter : late Pleistocene environments and behavioural adaptations at Blombos cave, South Africa / Geeske H.J. Langejans, Gerrit L. Dusseldorp, Karen L. van Niekerk & Christopher S. Henshilwood
  • chapter 3. Late Quaternary valley and slope deposits and their Palaeoenvironmental significance in the upper Congo basin, central Africa / Jürgen Runge, Mark Sangen, Marion Neumer, Joachim Eisenberg & Eva Becker
  • chapter 4. Lake level changes of Barombi Mbo (Cameroon) during the late Quaternary : compared catchment and crater lake records / Pierre Giresse, Jean Maley & Appolinaire Zogning
  • chapter 5. Palaeoenvironmental observations on a late Holocene debris-flow process in lake Assom (Adamawa, Cameroon) / Pierre Giresse & Simon Ngos III
  • chapter 6. Palaeoenvironmental characteristics of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo and Chitimwe beds (N-Malawi) / Tina Lüdecke & Heinrich Thiemeyer
  • chapter 7. Why 'younger dryas'? Why not 'Antarctic cold reversal'? Eksteenfontein revisited / Klaus Heine, Uwe Rust & Alexandra Hilgers
  • chapter 8. Historical and present-day landscape degradation in Anambra state (Nigeria) : impacts and remedial measures / Elizabeth I. Okoyeh, Izuchukwu M. Akaegbobi & Boniface C. Egboka
  • chapter 9. Climate change analysis across rainfall-discharge variability in selected river catchments of Kenya and central African Republic / Cyriaque-Rufin Nguimalet.