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The stable hydrogen isotopic composition of sedimentary plant waxes as quantitative proxy for rainfall in the West African Sahel

(2016) Eva M. Niedermeyer et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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(2016) Timothy D. Herbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Changes in northeast African hydrology and vegetation associated with Pliocene–Pleistocene sapropel cycles

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Neogene biomarker record of vegetation change in eastern Africa

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Decrease in coccolithophore calcification and CO2 since the middle Miocene

(2016) Clara T. Bolton et al.   Nature Communications

Dietary changes of large herbivores in the Turkana Basin, Kenya from 4 to 1 Ma

(2015) Thure E. Cerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstructing C 3 and C 4 vegetation cover using n -alkane carbon isotope ratios in recent lake sediments from Cameroon, Western Central Africa

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Uncertainty in paleohydrologic reconstructions from molecular δD values

(2014) Pratigya J. Polissar et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene

(2014) Zhongshi Zhang et al.   NATURE

Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in and across modern plants: Implications for paleoecology and chemotaxonomy

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(2013) S. J. Feakins et al.   GEOLOGY

Dynamics of Green Sahara Periods and Their Role in Hominin Evolution

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Stable isotope-based diet reconstructions of Turkana Basin hominins

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Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets

(2013) M. Sponheimer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NW African hydrology and vegetation during the Last Glacial cycle reflected in plant-wax-specific hydrogen and carbon isotopes

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Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms

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Biozonation and biochronology of Miocene through Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils from low and middle latitudes

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Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A.E. Strömberg   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

(2011) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Late Miocene to Pliocene carbon isotope record of differential diet change among East African herbivores

(2011) K. T. Uno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale

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Cenozoic vegetation, climate changes and hominid evolution in tropical Africa

(2010) Raymonde Bonnefille   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years

(2010) James A. Collins et al.   Nature Geoscience

Carbon isotope ratio of Cenozoic CO2: A comparative evaluation of available geochemical proxies

(2010) Brett J. Tipple et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Gustiness: The driver of glacial dustiness?

(2010) David McGee et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The age of the grasses and clusters of origins of C4photosynthesis

(2008) ALBERTO VICENTINI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

(2007) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY