Diversity and palaeoecological significance of non-pollen palynomorph assemblages in East African lake sediments

In tropical Africa the palaeoecological visibility of (pre)historical human impact on natural ecosystems is strongly impeded by a dominant signature of climate change at decade-to-century and millennial scales. Better knowledge of the relative magnitude of past human impact is, however, instrumental to properly assess the resilience, and re covery potential, of Africa's natural ecosystems. In this study, we combined taxonomic, ecological and palaeoecological approaches to validate fossil non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs), i.e. non-pollen micro-remains from fungi and selected groups of algae, vascular plants and invertebrates, as palaeoenvironmental indicators for climate change and hu man impact on East African ecosystems.

• Publication year

  2011

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  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2011-02-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1163/2031356X-02402012
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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