Anne-Marie Lézine

TL;DR: The authors reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia and found that the most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century.

TL;DR: This gradual rather than abrupt termination of the African Humid Period in the eastern Sahara suggests a relatively weak biogeophysical feedback on climate.

TL;DR: The combined pollen and speleothems proxy data indicate that this montane rainforest expansion during Heinrich Stadial 1 Event was triggered mainly by a less seasonal rainfall regime from the subtropics to the equatorial region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reconstruction of African tropical grassland history during the late Holocene can be carried out using phytolith analysis, where tall or short grass associations are discriminated by their phytochemical index Iph(%) = saddle/(cross + dumbel + saddle), while the density of shrubs and trees is indicated by relative proportions of the dicotyledon phytophylls.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used modern pollen and plant macrofossil data to predict the major vegetation types with a high confidence level, and applied the method to the 6000 years data set.