Annie Vincens

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.

TL;DR: The results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide are at risk of major transformation, with accompanying disruption of ecosystem services and impacts on biodiversity.

TL;DR: This article reviewed terrestrial and near-shore marine records from equatorial and southern Africa between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago (30−10,000) to show how regional climates of the sub-continent have responded to orbital forcing as opposed to other global glacial-interglacial boundary conditions, and how they are related to high latitude climates, sea and land surface conditions, positions of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and of the westerly belt.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the objective biomization method applied to pollen counts using a complete list of dryland taxa to reconstruct biome distributions at the last glacial maximum in southern Europe and Africa.