Paleobiology Books

New and Published Books

1. African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution

   Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 30, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments

   Edited by Jürgen Runge

   Series: Palaeoecology of Africa

   This 30st jubilee volume (2010) of "Palaeoecology of Africa" looks back and reflects the "state of the art" of what is actually known on former African climates and ecosystems in the format of review articles authored by specialists in the field. New research articles on climate and ecosystem...

   Published October 31st 2010 by CRC Press
2. Holocene Palaeoenvironmental History of the Central Sahara

   Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 29, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments

   Edited by Roland Baumhauer, Jürgen Runge

   Series: Palaeoecology of Africa

   The environmental setting within the Central Sahara was subject to considerable changes during Late Quaternary, mainly driven by major global climate variations, although human impact increased constantly since Early Holocene. Such global events can be reconstructed with the help of reliefs,...

   Published February 26th 2009 by CRC Press
3. Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa During the Holocene: Past – Present – Future

   Palaeoecology of Africa, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments, Volume 28

   Edited by J. Runge

   Series: Palaeoecology of Africa

   This book consists of scientific papers resulting from an international workshop: ‘Environmental and Cultural Change in West- and Central Africa’ organized by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, March 2006. Problems of Holocene and Late Pleistocene modifications of the rain...

   Published October 3rd 2007 by Taylor & Francis
4. Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Arid Lands

   Edited by E. Derbyshire, A.K. Singhvi

   The 11 chapters provide a wide ranging perspective on some of the problems under investigation and several of the systematic approaches currently in use by those concerned with refining the knowledge of the changing environments in the world's drylands during the latter part of the Quaternary....

   Published December 31st 1998 by Taylor & Francis