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List of works by Michael Meadows

A 19.5kyr vegetation history from the central Cederberg Mountains, South Africa: Palynological evidence from rock hyrax middens

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A 700‐year record on the effects of climate and human impact on the southern cape coast inferred from lake sediments of eilandvlei, wilderness embayment, south africa

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A high resolution 15,600-year pollen and microcharcoal record from the Cederberg Mountains, South Africa

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A late Pleistocene-Holocene multi-proxy record of palaeoenvironmental change from Still Bay, southern Cape Coast, South Africa

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Africa

An Analysis of Long-Term Rainfall Trends and Variability in the Uttarakhand Himalaya Using Google Earth Engine

scientific article published in 2020

Biogeography: does theory meet practice?

scholarly article by Michael Meadows published March 2001 in Progress in Physical Geography

Biome-scale characterisation and differentiation of semi-arid and arid zone soil organic matter compositions using pyrolysis–GC/MS analysis

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Building beyond land: An overview of coastal land reclamation in 16 global megacities

Coetzee, J.A. 1967: Pollen analytical studies in East and Southern Africa. Palaeoecology of Africa 3, 1—146

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Correction to: The Case for a Critical Zone Science Approach to Research on Estuarine and Coastal Wetlands in the Anthropocene

scientific article published in 2020

Distributed Stormwater Controls for Flood Mitigation within Urbanized Watersheds: Case Study of Rocky Branch Watershed in Columbia, South Carolina

Electrolytic oxygen generation for subsurface delivery: effects of precipitation at the cathode and an assessment of side reactions

scientific article published in May 2002

Evidence for Holocene sea level change at Verlorenvlei, Western Cape, South Africa

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Evidence for progressive Holocene aridification in southern Africa recorded in Namibian hyrax middens: Implications for African Monsoon dynamics and the ‘‘African Humid Period’’

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Evolving southwest African response to abrupt deglacial North Atlantic climate change events

scholarly article by Brian M Chase et al published August 2015 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Factors Influencing Four Decades of Forest Change in Guizhou Province, China

scientific article published in 2023

Gaining or losing ground? Tracking Asia's hunger for ‘new’ coastal land in the era of sea level rise

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Geochemistry and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of a palaeosol sequence at Langebaanweg, South Africa

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Global Warming: The Importance of the Past in Understanding the Future

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Holocene climate change in southernmost South Africa: rock hyrax middens record shifts in the southern westerlies

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Holocene environmental change in the Okavango Panhandle, northwest Botswana

scholarly article by David J. Nash et al published June 2006 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Holocene geochronology of a continentalshelf mudbelt off southwestern Africa

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Holocene sea level and environmental change on the west coast of South Africa: evidence from plant biomarkers, stable isotopes and pollen

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Holocene vegetation and climate variability in the winter and summer rainfall zones of South Africa

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Holocene vegetation history and palaeoenvironments at Klaarfontein Springs, Western Cape, South Africa

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Hominin Response to Oscillations in Climate and Local Environments During the Mid‐Pleistocene Climate Transition in Northern China

scientific article published in 2023

Influence of tropical easterlies in southern Africa's winter rainfall zone during the Holocene

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Land Cover Change Intensifies Actual and Potential Radiative Forcing through CO in South and Southeast Asia from 1992 to 2015

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Late Holocene Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Correction for the Southern and Eastern Coasts of South Africa

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Late Holocene environments at verlorenvlei, Western Cape Province, South Africa

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Late Quaternary Palaeoenvironments of the southwestern Cape, South Africa: a regional synthesis

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Late Quaternary dynamics of southern Africa's winter rainfall zone

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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the winter-rainfall zone of southern Africa: Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Agulhas Plain

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Late-Holocene palaeolimnological and climate dynamics at Princessvlei, South Africa: Evidence from diatoms

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Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in arid zone South African flora: Environmental controls, chemotaxonomy and palaeoecological implications

scholarly article by Andrew S. Carr et al published February 2014 in Organic Geochemistry

Measuring Compound Soil Erosion by Wind and Water in the Eastern Agro–Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China

scientific article published on 21 May 2022

Mineralogy and micromorphology of a late Neogene paleosol sequence at Langebaanweg, South Africa: Inference of paleoclimates

scholarly article by Peter N. Eze published in September 2014

Modelling Spatial Heterogeneity in the Effects of Natural and Socioeconomic Factors, and Their Interactions, on Atmospheric PM2.5 Concentrations in China from 2000–2015

scientific article published on 31 May 2021

Multi-proxy palaeosol evidence for late Quaternary (MIS 4) environmental and climate shifts on the coasts of South Africa

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Orbital controls on Namib Desert hydroclimate over the past 50,000 years

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Palynological evidence for the impact of colonial settlement within lowland fynbos: A high‐resolution study from the Verlorenvlei, southwestern Cape Province, South Africa

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Pollen distribution in the marine surface sediments of the mudbelt along the west coast of South Africa

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Quantification of climate change for the last 20,000years from Wonderkrater, South Africa: Implications for the long-term dynamics of the Intertropical Convergence Zone

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Quaternary environments

Rapid greening response of China’s 2020 spring vegetation to COVID-19 restrictions: Implications for climate change

scientific article published in 2021

Recent methodological advances in Quaternary palaeoecological proxies

Reconstruction of coastal flooding processes and human response at the end of the Liangzhu Culture, East China

scientific article published in 2022

Rock hyrax middens: A palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands

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Sea level and climate change at the southern Cape coast, South Africa, during the past 4.2 kyr

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Soil erosion in the Swartland, Western Cape Province, South Africa: implications of past and present policy and practice

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Texture contrast profile with stonelayer in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa: Autochthony and polygenesis

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The Case for a Critical Zone Science Approach to Research on Estuarine and Coastal Wetlands in the Anthropocene

scientific article published in 2020

The Doctoral Degree in Geography: A South African Perspective

The history and development of Quaternary Science in South Africa

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The history of mediterranean-type environments: climate, culture and landscape

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The impact of changing reservoir effects on the 14 C chronology of a Holocene sediment record from South Africa

The late Holocene vegetation history of lowland fynbos, Verlorenvlei, southwestern Cape Province, South Africa

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The late quaternary palaeoecology of a floristic kingdom: the southwestern Cape South Africa

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The role of Quaternary environmental change in the evolution of landscapes: case studies from southern Africa

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The use of multiple discriminant analysis in reconstructing recent vegetation changes on the Nuwelveldverg, South Africa

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Transient social–ecological dynamics reveal signals of decoupling in a highly disturbed Anthropocene landscape

Tropical savannas

Urban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective

scientific article published on 22 April 2024

Using 210Pb-data and paleomagnetic secular variations to date anthropogenic impact on a lake system in the Western Cape, South Africa

article by Torsten Haberzettl et al published April 2019 in Quaternary Geochronology

Vegetation and climate dynamics during the last glacial period in the fynbos-afrotemperate forest ecotone, southern Cape, South Africa

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