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Research article
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06 Jan 2022
Research article |
| 06 Jan 2022
| 06 Jan 2022
Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of
Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
present address: Hendrik Werkmanstr. 5, 1061 VA Amsterdam, Netherlands
Xueqin Zhao
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of
Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
present address: College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean
University, Shanghai, China
Christopher Charles
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
John Tyler Faith
Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
UT 84108, USA
Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
84112, USA
David Braun
Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, George
Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA
Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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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.
We studied the vegetation and climate of southwestern South Africa for the period of the past...
