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 …

Describing a drowned Pleistocene ecosystem: last Glacial Maximum vegetation reconstruction of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain

RM Cowling, AJ Potts, J Franklin, GF Midgley… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pleistocene ecosystems provided the stage for modern human emergence. Terrestrial
vegetation communities structure resources for human foragers, providing plant food, wood …

[책][B] The archaeology of southern Africa

P Mitchell - 2024 - books.google.com
Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

[HTML][HTML] Test for Covid-19 seasonality and the risk of second waves

FA Engelbrecht, RJ Scholes - One Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Ten months into the Covid-19 pandemic it remains unclear whether transmission of SARS-
CoV-2 is affected by climate factors. Using a dynamic epidemiological model with Covid-19 …

Verification of ERA5 and ERA-Interim precipitation over Africa at intra-annual and interannual timescales

J Steinkopf, F Engelbrecht - Atmospheric Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Over data sparse regions such as Africa, reanalysis datasets can provide a useful alternative
to enable climate investigations across a range of temporal scales. Here, a detailed …

The Last Glacial Maximum climate at Boomplaas Cave, South Africa

JT Faith, BM Chase, J Pargeter - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
With a rich sequence of floral and faunal remains spanning the past> 65,000 years,
Boomplaas Cave is among the more important paleoenvironmental archives from South …

An extended last glacial maximum in the Southern Hemisphere: A contribution to the SHeMax project

LM Petherick, J Knight, J Shulmeister, H Bostock… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Proxy records from across the Southern Hemisphere show significant local to regional scale
variability in climatic and environmental conditions during late Marine Isotope Stage 3 and …

Plant richness, turnover, and evolutionary diversity track gradients of stability and ecological opportunity in a megadiversity center

JF Colville, CM Beale, F Forest… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Research on global patterns of diversity has been dominated by studies seeking
explanations for the equator-to-poles decline in richness of most groups of organisms …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of C3 and C4 grasses and CAM shrubs in the Greater Cape Floristic Region under contemporary and Last Glacial Maximum climates

BA Grobler, J Franklin, CW Marean… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Southern Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR)–a hotspot of biological
diversity and palaeo-anthropological evidence for modern human evolution–is a climatically …

Investigating changes in rainfall seasonality across South Africa: 1987–2016

SJ Roffe, JM Fitchett, CJ Curtis - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in rainfall seasonality across South Africa may have detrimental impacts
on crop yields and surface water supplies. Despite this, these have rarely been investigated …