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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
Department of Geology, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda
V. Gelorini
Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
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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).
Using fossil pollen assemblages to trace vegetation response to relatively modest historical...
