Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300&thinsp;000 years (IODP U1479)

Dupont, Lydie M.; Zhao, Xueqin; Charles, Christopher; Faith, John Tyler; Braun, David

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 1

Research article

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06 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 06 Jan 2022

Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)

Lydie M. Dupont, Xueqin Zhao, Christopher Charles, John Tyler Faith, and David Braun

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1-2022-supplement

Data sets

Pollen and spores and micro-charcoal of IODP Site 361-U1479 (0-300ka) L. M. Dupont https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.930614

Short summary

We studied the vegetation and climate of southwestern South Africa for the period of the past 300000 years. Vegetation and climate development in this region are interesting because the vegetation of the Western Cape is a global biodiversity hotspot and because the archeology of the region substantially contributed to the understanding of the origins of modern humans. We found that the influence of precession variability on the vegetation and climate of southwestern South Africa is strong.