A new study site on the inaccessible Mount Lico, Mozambique, explores the history of forest fire disturbances to the drier leeward forests over the past 7000 years. Evidence from charcoal in the soil pit and current tree demographics suggests that fire activity has recently increased during the past few hundred to 1000 years ago. We […]
Palaeoenvironmental site map
Interactive map of palaeoenvironmental sites in East Africa. Click the sites to find the relevant published studies and access the papers. An index list of sites can be found by clicking the box at the top left corner of the map. version 001 Colin Courtney Mustaphi 15 December 2014 Sites and references Amani Pond Mumbi […]
Fieldwork at Lakes Baringo and Bogoria, July 2014
The REAL ESRs from Ghent University carried out field work in Lakes Baringo and Bogoria in the Kenyan rift valley in July. Together with Prof. Dirk Verschuren, ESRs Geert van der Plas and Aynalem Degefa and other members of the Limnology Unit at Ghent University (Gijs de Cort and Yoeri Torsi), were involved in the […]