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A 12,000 year record of changes in herbivore niche separation and palaeoclimate (Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa)

scientific article

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

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A Holocene sequence of vegetation change at Lake Eteza, coastal KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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A Late Quaternary Pollen Record from the Transvaal Bushveld, South Africa

scholarly article

A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa

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Analysis of the Voigtspost Site, O.F.S., South Africa

scientific article published in December 1978

Characterizing the Meghalayan Stage in southern Africa: A multiproxy record of paleoenvironmental change at the southern margin of the Kalahari

scientific article published in March 2022

Corrigendum to “Terrestrial fossil-pollen evidence of climate change during the last 26 thousand years in Southern Africa” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 32 (2012) 100–118]

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Dating, Paleoenvironments, and Archaeology: A Progress Report on the Sunnyside 1 Site, Clarens, South Africa

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Ecological and Allergenic Significance of Atmospheric Pollen Spectra from a Grassland-Savanna Ecotone in North-West Province (South Africa)

scientific article published in 2024

Environmental implications of pollen spectra in bat droppings from southeastern Spain and potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

scientific article published in July 2006

Exotic Pollen and Long-Distance wind Dispersal at a Sub-Antarctic Island

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Fluctuations of vegetation and climate over the last 75 000 years in the Savanna Biome, South Africa: Tswaing Crater and Wonderkrater pollen sequences reviewed

scientific article published on 09 June 2016

Holocene environmental changes in Namibia inferred from pollen analysis of swamp and lake deposits

scholarly article

Holocene palynology and palaeoenvironments in the Savanna Biome at Tswaing Crater, central South Africa

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Holocene pollen from swamp, cave and hyrax dung deposits at Blydefontein (Kikvorsberge), Karoo, South Africa

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Late Holocene Stalagmite and Tufa Climate Records for Wonderwerk Cave: Relationships Between Archaeology and Climate in Southern Africa

Late Holocene environmental change in the northwestern Namib Desert margin: New fossil pollen evidence from hyrax middens

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Late Pleistocene-Holocene vegetation and climate change in the Middle Kalahari, Lake Ngami, Botswana

scientific article published in 2017

Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments in the central semi-arid region of South Africa from pollen in cave, pan, spring, stream and dung deposits

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Late Quaternary vegetation dynamics and hydro-climate in the Drakensberg, South Africa

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Late glacial interhemispheric climate dynamics revealed in South African hyrax middens

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Lower timberline in central Colorado during the past 15,000 yr

scholarly article

Microscopic charcoal in sediments: Quaternary fire history of the grassland and savanna regions in South Africa

scientific article published on 25 August 2002

Middle-to late-Holocene moisture changes in the desert of northwest Namibia derived from fossil hyrax dung pollen

Miocene climate and vegetation changes in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa: Evidence from biogeochemistry and palynology

scholarly article by L. Sciscio published in March 2016

Miocene fluvial systems and palynofloras at the southwestern tip of Africa: Implications for regional and global fluctuations in climate and ecosystems

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Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa

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Origin and divergence of Afro-Indian Picrodendraceae: linking pollen morphology, dispersal modes, fossil records, molecular dating and paleogeography

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Palaeoenvironments during a terminal Oligocene or early Miocene transgression in a fluvial system at the southwestern tip of Africa

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Paleofloras, paleovegetation and human evolution

scientific article published in August 2019

Palynological analysis of hyrax middens from Southern Africa

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Palynological evidence for late quaternary warming episodes in Southern Africa

scholarly article

Palynology of Holocene Deposits in Excavation 1 at Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape (South Africa)

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Palynology of Middle Stone Age spring deposits in grassland at the Florisbad hominin site, South Africa

scientific article published in June 2019

Palynology of hyrax middens: 2000 years of palaeoenvironmental history in Namibia

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Persistent millennial-scale climatic variability over the past 25,000 years in Southern Africa

scholarly article

Pleistocene landscapes in central Iberia inferred from pollen analysis of hyena coprolites

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Pollen analysis of Iron Age cow dung in southern Africa

scientific article published in December 2000

Pollen in Recent Procavia (Hyrax), Petromus (Dassie Rat) and Bird Dung in South Africa

scholarly article

Pollen in fossil hyrax dung from Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 reveals past environments in Namibia

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Pollen taphonomy from hyaena scats and coprolites: preservation and quantitative differences

Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

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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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Reconciliation of vegetation and climatic interpretations of pollen profiles and other regional records from the last 60 thousand years in the Savanna Biome of Southern Africa

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Regional and global context of the Late Cenozoic Langebaanweg (LBW) palaeontological site: West Coast of South Africa

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Rock hyrax middens: A palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands

scholarly article

Sedimentary charcoal studies from southern Africa’s grassy biomes: a potential resource for informing the management of fires and ecosystems

scientific article published on 15 February 2022

Short-term changes of climate and vegetation revealed by pollen analysis of hyrax dung in South Africa

scholarly article

Special issue on ‘Palaeoenvironment’ in honour of Professor Aharon Horowitz

Supplementary material to "The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period"

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Taphonomy in palaeoecological interpretations

scientific article published in June 2011

Terrestrial biosphere changes over the last 120 kyr

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

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The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period

The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period

scientific article published in 2017

The Oldowan horizon in Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa): archaeological, geological, paleontological and paleoclimatic evidence

scientific article published on 3 November 2012

The Younger Dryas interval at Wonderkrater (South Africa) in the context of a platinum anomaly

2019 scholarly article by John Francis Thackeray et al.

The first Loranthaceae fossils from Africa.

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The potential of palynology in fossil bat-dung from Arnhem Cave, Namibia

scholarly article by Eugène Marais published in January 2015

Twentieth century changes in montane vegetation in the eastern Free State, South Africa, derived from palynology of hyrax dung middens

scientific article published in February 1999

Vegetation history and climate in the Savanna biome South Africa since 190,000 ka: a comparison of pollen data from the Tswaing Crater (the Pretoria Saltpan) and Wonderkrater

scientific article published on 25 July 2002