The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation

AC Staver, JO Abraham, GP Hempson… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivory is a key process structuring vegetation in savannas, especially in Africa where
large mammal herbivore communities remain intact. Exclusion experiments consistently …

The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Temporal and spatial variation in an extraordinary extinct ecosystem of the Pleistocene of the Cape Floristic Region

CW Marean, RM Cowling, J Franklin - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
At the height of its extent, during strong glacials, the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (PAP, south coast
of South Africa) was the size of Ireland, sometimes doubling the size of the extant Cape …

Geological and soil maps of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain for the Last Glacial Maximum

HC Cawthra, RM Cowling, S Andò… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The South African Cape South Coast is bordered by one of the broadest continental
shelves in Africa. The Agulhas Bank, inshore shelf and presently exposed coastal plain …

Large mammals of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain showed resilience to extreme climate change but vulnerability to modern human impacts

JA Venter, CF Brooke, CW Marean, H Fritz… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent evidence indicates that the now submerged continental shelf, the Palaeo-Agulhas
Plain (PAP), formed a novel ecosystem during periods of low sea level. This landscape …

[HTML][HTML] Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)

LM Dupont, X Zhao, C Charles, JT Faith… - Climate of the …, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) of South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot
of global significance, and its archeological record has substantially contributed to the …

Palaeoenvironments and plant availability during MIS 6 to MIS 3 on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (south coast, South Africa) as indicated by phytolith analysis …

I Esteban, CW Marean, RM Cowling, EC Fisher… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Cape south coast presents some of the world's most significant early modern human
sites preserving evidence for complex human behaviour during the Middle Stone Age …

Morphology of Pleistocene elephant tracks on South Africa's Cape south coast and probable elephant trunk-drag impressions

CW Helm, MG Lockley, L Moolman… - Quaternary …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Aeolianites and cemented foreshore deposits on South Africa's Cape south coast have the
capacity to record and preserve events that transpired on them when they were composed of …

Late Pleistocene prey mobility in southwestern France and its implications for reconstructing Neandertal ranging behaviors

J Hodgkins, A Bertacchi, KJ Knudson, T Rasbury… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
As hunter-gatherers, Neandertal mobility and corresponding adaptations were influenced by
the mobility of their prey; thus, it is critical to track how the movement patterns of each …

When the woolly rhinoceroses roamed East Asia: a review of isotopic paleoecology of the genus Coelodonta from the Tibetan Plateau to northern Eurasia

J Ma, S Wang, T Deng - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - frontiersin.org
East Asia, being the evolutionary center of Coelodonta, offers a unique opportunity to
explore the spatiotemporal paleoecologies of this genus. This study utilized bulk and serial …

The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: A lost world and extinct ecosystem

N Cleghorn, AJ Potts… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Abstract In this Special Issue, we present a fully integrated model of an extinct ecosystem-
the Palaeo-Agulhas-Plain (PAP). This revolutionary research approach intertwines …