Global lake responses to climate change

RI Woolway, BM Kraemer, JD Lenters… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change is one of the most severe threats to global lake ecosystems. Lake surface
conditions, such as ice cover, surface temperature, evaporation and water level, respond …

Water resources in Africa under global change: monitoring surface waters from space

F Papa, JF Crétaux, M Grippa, E Robert, M Trigg… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
The African continent hosts some of the largest freshwater systems worldwide, characterized
by a large distribution and variability of surface waters that play a key role in the water …

SOLS: A lake database to monitor in the Near Real Time water level and storage variations from remote sensing data

JF Crétaux, A Arsen, S Calmant, A Kouraev… - Advances in space …, 2011 - Elsevier
An accurate and continuous monitoring of lakes and inland seas is available since 1993
thanks to the satellite altimetry missions (Topex–Poseidon, GFO, ERS-2, Jason-1, Jason-2 …

Influence of El Niño on the variability of global shoreline position

R Almar, J Boucharel, M Graffin, GO Abessolo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coastal zones are fragile and complex dynamical systems that are increasingly under threat
from the combined effects of anthropogenic pressure and climate change. Using global …

The role of mountain ranges in the diversification of birds

J Fjeldså, RCK Bowie, C Rahbek - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Avian faunas vary greatly among montane areas; those at high latitudes are biologically
impoverished, whereas those of some low-latitude mountains are biologically very complex …

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

R Marchant, S Richer, O Boles, C Capitani… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

How well do we understand the land‐ocean‐atmosphere carbon cycle?

D Crisp, H Dolman, T Tanhua… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fossil fuel combustion, land use change and other human activities have increased the
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) abundance by about 50% since the beginning of the …

Global climate

RJH Dunn, JB Miller, KM Willett… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global Climate is one chapter from the State of the Climate in 2022 annual report and is
available from https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0090.1. Compiled by NOAA's National …

Biogeographic evolution of Madagascar's microendemic biota

L Wilmé, SM Goodman, JU Ganzhorn - science, 2006 - science.org
The endemic species richness on Madagascar, relative to landmass area, is unparalleled in
the world. Many organisms on the island have restricted geographical ranges. A …

The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: a synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000–30,000 years ago

MW Blome, AS Cohen, CA Tryon, AS Brooks… - Journal of human …, 2012 - Elsevier
We synthesize African paleoclimate from 150 to 30 ka (thousand years ago) using 85
diverse datasets at a regional scale, testing for coherence with North Atlantic …