A late-Quaternary perspective on atmosphericpCO2, climate, and fire as drivers of C4-grass abundance

Physiological advantages of C4grasses in the field: a comparative experiment demonstrating the importance of drought

(2014) Samuel H. Taylor et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A hierarchical Bayesian approach to the classification of C3 and C4 grass pollen based on SPIRAL δ13C data

(2013) Michael A. Urban et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The role of fire in Miocene to Pliocene C4 grassland and ecosystem evolution

(2013) Sebastian Hoetzel et al.   Nature Geoscience

Classification of grass pollen through the quantitative analysis of surface ornamentation and texture

(2013) L. Mander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A comparative study of ancient environmental DNA to pollen and macrofossils from lake sediments reveals taxonomic overlap and additional plant taxa

(2013) Mikkel Winther Pedersen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Calibration and application of the branched GDGT temperature proxy on East African lake sediments

(2012) Shannon E. Loomis et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Long-term variability and rainfall control of savanna fire regimes in equatorial East Africa

(2012) David M. Nelson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

(2012) W. J. Bond et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake

(2012) Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

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

A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa

(2011) A. Park Williams et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes

(2011) Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro

(2011) P. A. Barker et al.   GEOLOGY

C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland

(2011) Jack A. Morgan et al.   NATURE

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

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

High-resolution 14C dating of a 25,000-year lake-sediment record from equatorial East Africa

(2011) Maarten Blaauw et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya

(2011) Bas van Geel et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states

(2010) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGY

Projected Changes in Mean and Extreme Precipitation in Africa under Global Warming. Part II: East Africa

(2010) Mxolisi E. Shongwe et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Experimental investigation of fire ecology in the C3 and C4 subspecies of Alloteropsis semialata

(2010) Brad Ripley et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How well do sediment indicators record past climate? An evaluation using annually laminated sediments

(2010) Jian Tian et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

The Neogene transition from C3 to C4 grasslands in North America: assemblage analysis of fossil phytoliths

(2010) Caroline A. E. Strömberg et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A molecular perspective on Late Quaternary climate and vegetation change in the Lake Tanganyika basin, East Africa

(2010) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator

(2009) Dirk Verschuren et al.   NATURE

Consistent dating for Antarctic and Greenland ice cores

(2009) Bénédicte Lemieux-Dudon et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Using SPIRAL (Single Pollen Isotope Ratio AnaLysis) to estimate C3- and C4-grass abundance in the paleorecord

(2008) David M. Nelson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Towards an understanding of late Quaternary variations in the continental biogeochemical cycle of silicon: multi-isotope and sediment-flux data for Lake Rutundu, Mt Kenya, East Africa, since 38 ka BP

(2008) F. Alayne Street-Perrott et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Warming of the Indian Ocean threatens eastern and southern African food security but could be mitigated by agricultural development

(2008) C. Funk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

(2008) J. E. Tierney et al.   SCIENCE