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Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi
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Open AccessAquatic invertebrate mandibles and sclerotized remains in Quaternary lake sediments
Subfossil remains of aquatic invertebrates found in lacustrine sediments are useful paleoenvironmental indicators. Strongly scleroticized chitinous body parts from the exoskeleton or exuviae from invertebrates...
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Open AccessHistorical Ecologies of Pastoralist Overgrazing in Kenya: Long-Term Perspectives on Cause and Effect
The spectre of ‘overgrazing’ looms large in historical and political narratives of ecological degradation in savannah ecosystems. While pastoral exploitation is a conspicuous driver of landscape variability an...
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Open AccessLate Holocene wetland transgression and 500 years of vegetation and fire variability in the semi-arid Amboseli landscape, southern Kenya
The semi-arid Amboseli landscape, southern Kenya, is characterised by intermittent groundwater-fed wetlands that form sedimentary geoarchives recording past ecosystem changes. We present a 5000-year environmen...
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Spatial variability of recent macroscopic charcoal deposition in a small montane lake and implications for reconstruction of watershed-scale fire regimes
Sediment and subfossil deposition can vary spatially within a lake because of multiple taphonomic influences. Paleofire reconstructions are commonly based on stratigraphic analysis of macroscopic charcoal in a...
