Orals CL2.3
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CL2.3 Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of African drylands |
| Co-Convener: James Collins |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2014 Room Y8 Chairperson: Abi Stone and Sallie Burrough |
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N Africa: Lake Yao
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| 15:30–15:45 |
EGU2014-12391
Gradual aridification of the Sahara during the last 11,000 years revealed by plant wax δD analyses of Lake Yoa (Chad) Janet Rethemeyer, Stefan Kröpelin, Jens Karls, Matthias Thienemann, Martin Melles, and Enno Schefuß |
| 15:45–16:00 |
EGU2014-13398
Abrupt or not abrupt - biodiversity affects climate-vegetation interaction at the end of the African Humid Period Martin Claussen, Sebastian Bathiany, Victor Brovkin, and Thomas Kleinen |
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Southern Africa
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| 16:00–16:15 |
EGU2014-5844
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Environmental change in subtropical southern Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum: a case study from Etosha Pan Barbara Mauz |
| 16:15–16:30 |
EGU2014-8166
The Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironmental context of Wonderwerk Cave in the southern Kalahari, South Africa Louis Scott, Margaret Avery, Marion Bamford, Francesco Berna, James Brink, George Brook, Michael Chazan, Michaela Ecker, Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo, Paul Goldberg, Julia Lee-Thorp, Lloyd Rossouw, Francis Thackeray, and Liora Horwitz |
| 16:30–16:45 |
EGU2014-10459
Climate and CO2 effects on the vegetation of southern tropical Africa over the last 37,000 years Uta Krebs-Kanzow, Vyacheslav C. Khon, Yiming v. Wang, Jed O. Kaplan, Birgit Schneider, and Ralph R. Schneider |
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Modelling
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| 16:45–17:00 |
EGU2014-3979
Interhemispheric symmetry vs. Meridional shifts in the African ITCZ during the late Quaternary: reconciling palaeo-records using climate model simulations Joy Singarayer and Paul Valdes |