Sedimentary and geomorphic evidence of Saharan megalakes: A synthesis

NA Drake, I Candy, P Breeze, SJ Armitage… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
It has long been recognised that the Sahara Desert contains sediment, landform and
palaeoecological evidence for phases of increased humidity during the Quaternary period …

Nonlinear rainfall effects on savanna fire activity across the African Humid Period

AT Karp, KT Uno, MA Berke, JM Russell… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fire is a key ecosystem process in tropical and subtropical savannas, with a varying role that
depends on hydroclimate but also on feedbacks between fire and vegetation. In savannas …

Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution

V Foerster, A Asrat, C Bronk Ramsey, ET Brown… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal

F Schaebitz, A Asrat, HF Lamb, AS Cohen… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Reconstructions of climatic and environmental conditions can contribute to current debates
about the factors that influenced early human dispersal within and beyond Africa. Here we …

Changes in the cyclicity and variability of the eastern African paleoclimate over the last 620 kyrs

W Duesing, S Kaboth-Bahr, A Asrat, AS Cohen… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is ongoing debate concerning whether or not changes in the eastern African climate,
both long-term and short-term, affected the evolution, dispersal, cultural development, and …

Using multiple chronometers to establish a long, directly-dated lacustrine record: constraining> 600,000 years of environmental change at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia

HM Roberts, CB Ramsey, MS Chapot, AL Deino… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite eastern Africa being a key location in the emergence of Homo sapiens and their
subsequent dispersal out of Africa, there is a paucity of long, well-dated climate records in …

Paleolakes of Eastern Africa: zeolites, clay minerals, and climate

LJ McHenry, V Foerster, D Gebregiorgis - Elements, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The eastern branch of the East African Rift System hosts many shallow modern lakes and
paleolakes, which can be sensitive recorders of changing climate conditions (complicated …

Buffering new risks? Environmental, social and economic changes in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period

E Hildebrand, KM Grillo, KL Chritz, ML Fischer… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper evaluates risk-oriented frameworks for explaining environmental, social, and
economic changes faced by fishing and herding communities in the Turkana Basin during …

Genetic diversity of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) populations in Ethiopia: insights from nuclear DNA microsatellites and implications for conservation

G Tesfaye, M Curto, P Meulenbroek… - BMC Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) is among the
economically most important freshwater fish species in East Africa, and a major source of …

[HTML][HTML] A Phytolith supported biosphere-hydrosphere predictive model for southern Ethiopia: Insights into paleoenvironmental changes and human landscape …

ML Fischer, F Bachofer, CL Yost, IJE Bludau… - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
During the past 25 ka, southern Ethiopia has undergone tremendous climatic changes, from
dry and relatively cold during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 25–18 ka) to the African …