Drivers of ecosystem and climate change in tropical West Africa over the past ∼540 000 years
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Drivers of ecosystem and climate change in tropical West Africa over the past 540 000 years
A paucity of empirical non-marine data means that uncertainty surrounds the impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems in tropical regions beyond the last glacial period. The sedimentary fill of the Bosumtwi impact crater (Ghana) provides the longest continuous Quaternary terrestrial archive of environmental change in West Africa, spanning the last 1.08 million years. Here we explore th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Quaternary Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0267-8179,1099-1417
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2893