Southeast African records reveal a coherent shift from high-to low-latitude forcing mechanisms along the east African margin across last glacial–interglacial transition

M Chevalier, BM Chase - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Late Quaternary climate variability in the southern African subtropics is still only poorly
resolved, with significant complexity and apparent contradictions in the regional dataset. To …

Isotopic reconstruction of the African humid period and Congo air boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia

K Costa, J Russell, B Konecky, H Lamb - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The African Humid Period of the early to mid-Holocene (12,000–5000 years ago)
had dramatic ecological and societal consequences, including the expansion of vegetation …

The timing, two-pulsed nature, and variable climatic expression of the 4.2 ka event: A review and new high-resolution stalagmite data from Namibia

LB Railsback, F Liang, GA Brook… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The climatic event between 4.2 and 3.9 ka BP known as the “4.2 ka event” is commonly
considered to be a synchronous global drought that happened as one pulse. However …

Terrestrial fossil-pollen evidence of climate change during the last 26 thousand years in Southern Africa

L Scott, FH Neumann, GA Brook, CB Bousman… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
In order to define criteria for long-term climate change models in Southern Africa, an
overview of the available pollen data during the Late Quaternary is needed. Here we …

African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

DJ Nash, G De Cort, BM Chase, D Verschuren… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The African continent is characterised by a wide range of hydroclimate regimes, ranging
from humid equatorial West Africa to the arid deserts in the northern and southern …

Estimating the hydrogen isotopic composition of past precipitation using leaf-waxes from western Africa

JA Collins, E Schefuß, S Mulitza, M Prange… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The hydrogen isotopic composition of plant leaf-wax n-alkanes (δDwax) is a novel proxy for
estimating δD of past precipitation (δDp). However, vegetation life-form and relative humidity …

The dynamic relationship between temperate and tropical circulation systems across South Africa since the last glacial maximum

BM Chase, M Chevalier, A Boom, AS Carr - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
A fundamental and long-standing question of southern African palaeoclimatology is the way
tropical and temperate climate system dynamics have influenced rainfall regimes across the …

Rock hyrax middens: a palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands

BM Chase, L Scott, ME Meadows, G Gil-Romera… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Like many of the world's subtropical regions, southern Africa is highly sensitive to changes in
the earth's climate system, but a dearth of reliable palaeoenvironmental records means that …

Eastern South African hydroclimate over the past 270,000 years

MH Simon, M Ziegler, J Bosmans, S Barker… - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Processes that control the hydrological balance in eastern South Africa on orbital to
millennial timescales remain poorly understood because proxy records documenting its …

The prospects of poop: a review of past achievements and future possibilities in faecal isotope analysis

REB Reid, BE Crowley, RJ Haupt - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
What can the stable isotope values of human and animal faeces tell us? This often under‐
appreciated waste product is gaining recognition across a variety of disciplines. Faecal …