Sensitivity of East African savannah vegetation to historical moisture-balance variation

Ssemmanda, I.; Gelorini, V.; Verschuren, D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-2067-2014

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-2067-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-2067-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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28 Nov 2014

Research article |

| 28 Nov 2014

Sensitivity of East African savannah vegetation to historical moisture-balance variation

I. Ssemmanda, V. Gelorini, and D. Verschuren

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RC C491: 'Ssemmanda et al. manuscript review', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 May 2014
RC C595: 'Review Ssemmanda et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 May 2014
RC C600: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 26 May 2014
EC C700: 'Editor's summary', Joel Guiot, 09 Jun 2014
AC C1461: 'cp-2014-47 final response to reviewer comments', Dirk Verschuren, 08 Sep 2014

Short summary

Using fossil pollen assemblages to trace vegetation response to relatively modest historical climate fluctuations is difficult. In this study, pollen data from a lake-sediment record in Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda) show that its landscape has been an open wooded savannah throughout the past 200 years, with known historical moisture-balance variation exerting modest effects on local tree cover (mostly Acacia and Ficus) and the occurrence of damp soil areas (promoting Phoenix palms).