[HTML][HTML] Monitoring climate change and anthropogenic pressure at Lake Tanganyika

PD Plisnier, M Nshombo, H Mgana… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The African Great Lakes are under threat from global and local environmental
challenges including climatic change, water pollution and overfishing. To address those …

Characterization of the last deglacial transition in tropical East Africa: Insights from Lake Albert

MA Berke, TC Johnson, JP Werne… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
New biomarker analyses from Lake Albert, East Africa spanning~ 15–9 ka show the most
extreme, abrupt, multi-stage climate and environmental shifts during the last deglacial …

[HTML][HTML] Does a proxy measure up? A framework to assess and convey proxy reliability

FG Boudinot, J Wilson - Climate of the Past, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
Earth scientists describe a wide range of observational measurements as “proxy
measurements”. By referring to such a vast body of measurements simply as “proxy” …

High-resolution paleoecological records from Lake Malawi show no significant cooling associated with the Mount Toba supereruption at ca. 75 ka

LJ Jackson, JR Stone, AS Cohen, CL Yost - Geology, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The impact of the ca. 75 ka Mount Toba (Indonesia) supereruption on regional and global
climate has been controversial. East Africa is pivotal for qualifying this impact, specifically in …

The sedimentary response to a rapid change in lake level in Lake Tanganyika

J McManus, S Severmann, AS Cohen, JL McKay… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present records of sedimentary organic carbon, nitrogen, and carbonate, and stable
isotope records of organic material and carbonate from a series of sediment cores that …

Quaternary climate variation in eastern Africa

TC Johnson - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017 - oxfordre.com
Summary The people of East Africa are particularly vulnerable to the whims of their regional
climate. A rapidly growing population depends heavily on rain-fed agriculture, and when the …

[NAVOD][C] Climatology of the East African Great Lakes Region and potential impacts of climate change on its biodiversity and ecosystem services

A Seimon, JC Ingram, JEM Watson - 2012 - espace.library.uq.edu.au
This chapter describes the state of the GLR in terms of its biodiversity, with a special
emphasis on freshwater habitats. It presents maps on the distribution in the GLR of overall …