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Ecosystem resilience to late-Holocene climate change in the Upper Zambezi Valley

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Peat deposits from wetlands in the Upper Zambezi Valley provide an important long-term window on ecosystem dynamics in the Kalahari basin during the late Holocene. We use fossil pollen and macro-charcoal extracted from peat cores contained in three wetland sites to examine the response of vegetation to regional climate change. We find that during the last 6 ka, internal ecosystem dynamics are more important than climate, as observed by independent records, in determining vegetation assemblage...

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10.1177/0959683615591355

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Geography
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
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SAGE Publications Publisher's website
Journal:
Holocene
Publication date:
2015-07-17
Acceptance date:
2015-05-06
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1477-0911
ISSN:
0959-6836
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English
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Deposit date:
2015-08-03

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