1st Edition
African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 30, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments
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 dynamics as well as applied topics on geomorphic hazards and future environmental trends in Africa are included.
This book will be of interest to all concerned with ecosystems dynamics, tropical forests, savannahs, deserts and related development problems of third world countries, especially ecologists, botanists, earth scientists (e.g. Quaternary and recent climate change), regional planners. It will also be valuable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates as a reference for review and overview articles as well as a source of information for new original manuscripts and reviews on the state of the art of long term and Quaternary and Holocene landscape evolution esp. in subsaharan Africa. Palaeobotanists, Palynologists and Quaternarists will equally find this edition useful for their work.
HOW IT ALL BEGAN—EDUARD VAN ZINDEREN BAKKER AND PALAEOECOLOGY OF AFRICA
Klaus Heine
RECONSTRUCTING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES SINCE THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM) IN THE GEBA BASIN, NORTHERN ETHIOPIA, BY GEOMORPHIC PROCESS INTERPRETATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT EVALUATION
Jan Moeyersons, Jean Poesen, Jan Nyssen, Jozef Deckers & Mitiku Haile
CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS BASED ON FLUVIAL DEPOSITS IN HYPER-ARID DESERT ENVIRONMENTS: THE NAMIB CASE
Klaus Heine
A SEDIMENTARY RECORD OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AT TSODILO HILLS WHITE PAINTINGS ROCK SHELTER, NORTHWEST KALAHARI DESERT, BOTSWANA
Andrew H. Ivester, George A. Brook, Lawrence H. Robbins, Alec C. Campbell, Michael L. Murphy & Eugene Marais
ECOSYSTEM CHANGE DURING MIS 4 AND EARLY MIS 3: EVIDENCE FROM MIDDLE STONE AGE SITES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Grant Hall & Stephan Woodborne
THE POTENTIAL OF POACEAE, CYPERACEAE AND RESTIONACEAE PHYTOLITHS TO REFLECT PAST ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Carlos E. Cordova & Louis Scott
TOPOGRAPHIC AND HYDROLOGIC CONTROL OF GULLY EROSION PHENOMENA IN PALAEOLANDSCAPES OF SWAZILAND, SOUTHERN AFRICA
Samanta Pelacani & Michael Märker
GYPSUM IN DESERT SOILS, SUBSURFACE CRUSTS AND HOST SEDIMENTS (WESTERN DESERT OF EGYPT)
Ashraf Mohamed, Konrad Rögner & Sixten Bussemer
NEW FINDINGS FROM GEOLOGICAL, GEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN SOUTHERN CAMEROON
Mark Sangen, Joachim Eisenberg, Jürgen Runge, Boniface Kankeu & Mesmin Tchindjang
PALAEOCLIMATE OF ONDIRI SWAMP, KIKUYU, KENYA, FROM 1.350 TO 1.810 AD
Julian A. Ogondo, Daniel O. Olago & Eric O. Odada
A CLUSTER-ANALYSIS-BASED CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION FOR NE AFRICA
Brigitta Schütt, Katharina Ducke & Jan Krause
CLIMATE AND PALAEOENVIRONMENT EVOLUTION IN NORTH TROPICAL AFRICA FROM THE END OF THE TERTIARY TO THE UPPER QUATERNARY
Jean Maley
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF NATURAL HAZARDS IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Ine Vandecasteele, Jan Moeyersons & Philippe Trefois
Biography
Since almost 25 years Professor Dr. Jürgen Runge (*1962) has worked as a Physical Geographer and Environmentalist on the evolution of tropical landscapes, former and recent environmental changes and on questions related to tropical and subtropical land use in subsaharan semi-humid and humid regions in Africa. After basic studies in Geography, Geology, Soil Science and Botany at the Universities of Giessen and Göttingen, he specialized on West and Central Africa regions as an assistant Professor at the University of Paderborn. Since the 1990’s extended field work and scientific expeditions on the Late Pleistocene climate and vegetation in the Congo basin and neighbouring areas were undertaken. In 2000 he was appointed full Professor for Physical Geography and Geoecology with regional focus on subsaharan Africa at Frankfurt University. In 2003 he set up the ‘Center for interdisciplinary research on Africa’ (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung, ZIAF, www.ziaf.uni-frankfurt.de).
In 2005 he tooks over the editorship of ‘Palaeoecology of Africa’. He is presently on leave (2007-2010) for assisting the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) on the topic of geological resources and governance in Central Africa.
