Title Changing climates, ecosystems, and environments within arid southern Africa and adjoining regions / editor, Jürgen Runge, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Africa (CIRA/ZIAF), Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ; in collaboration with Marion K. Bamford, Evolutionary Studies Institute and School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Linda Basson, Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, Joachim Eisenberg, Institute of Physical Geography, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF Series Palaeoecology of Africa, international yearbook of landscape evolution and palaeoenvironments, 2372-5907 ; volume 33 Palaeoecology of Africa ; v. 33. Environetbase Contents Chapter 1. From past to present : Louis Scott tribute conference / Jürgen Runge & Maitland T. Seaman -- chapter 2. Geomorphology and late Quaternary environmental change : an overview of Central Southern Africa / Peter Holmes -- chapter 3. Dry lakes or pans of the western free state, South Africa : environmental history of Deelpan and possible early human impacts / Karl W. Butzer & John F. Oswald -- chapter 4. Homo Habilis and Australopithecus Africanus, in the context of a chronospecies and climatic change / J. Francis Thackeray -- chapter 5. The Fauresmith and archaeological systematics / Michael Chazan -- chapter 6. A reconstruction of the skull of Megalotragus Priscus (Broom, 1909), based on a find from Erfkroon, Modder River, South Africa, with notes on the chronology and biogeography of the species / James S. Brink, C. Britt Bousman & Rainer Grün -- chapter 7. Ostrich eggshell as a source of palaeoenvironmental information in the arid interior of South Africa : a case study from Wonderwerk cave / Michaela Ecker, Jennifer Botha-Brink, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, André Piuz & Liora Kolska Horwitz -- chapter 8. First chronological, palaeoenvironmental, and archaeological data from the Baden-Baden fossil spring complex in the western free state, South Africa / Andri C. van Aardt, C. Britt Bousman, James S. Brink, George A. Brook, Zenobia Jacobs, Pieter J. du Preez, Lloyd Rossouw & Louis Scott -- chapter 9. Charcoal from pre-Holocene stratum 5, Wonderwerk cave, South Africa / Marion K. Bamford -- chapter 10. Rediscovering the intriguing patrimonies depicted in rock shelters of Iringa, Tanzania / Makarius Peter Itambu -- chapter 11. The effects of global warming on the rock art in the Ukhahlambadrakensberg park world heritage site, South Africa / Alvord Nhundu -- chapter 12. Climate change adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry systems in Wolaita zone, southern highland of Ethiopia / Wondimu Tadiwos Hailesilassie Summary Discusses climate change impact on both the region of southern Africa, and the nation of South Africa Notes "A Balkema book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Subject Climatic changes -- Africa, Southern Global warming -- Africa, Southern Climatic changes -- South Africa Global warming -- South Africa Arid regions -- Africa Biotic communities -- Africa, Southern Arid regions Biotic communities Climatic changes Global warming Africa Southern Africa South Africa Form Electronic book Author Runge, Jürgen, 1962- editor Bamford, M. K., editor Basson, Linda, 1958- editor. Eisenberg, Joachim, 1972- editor. ISBN 9781315738307 1315738309 9781317573296 1317573293 9781317573272 1317573277 9781317573289 1317573285

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