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RECORD NUMBER: 277 OF 2052| Main Title | Changing climates, ecosystems, and environments within arid southern Africa and adjoining regions / | ||||||
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| Type | EBOOK | ||||||
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, | ||||||
| Year Published | 2016 | ||||||
| Call Number | QC903.2.A35C47 2016 | ||||||
| ISBN | 9781315738307 (e-book : PDF); 9781317573296 (e-book: PDF); 9781317573272 (e-book: Mobi); 9781317573289 (e-book: ePub); 9781138027046 (hardback) | ||||||
| Subjects | Climatic changes--Africa, Southern ; Global warming--Africa, Southern ; Climatic changes--South Africa ; Global warming--South Africa ; Arid regions--Africa ; Biotic communities--Africa, Southern | ||||||
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| Collation | 1 online resource : text file, PDF. | ||||||
| Notes | "A Balkema book." Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only |
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| Contents Notes | chapter 1. From past to present : Louis Scott tribute conference / J?rgen Runge & Maitland T. Seaman -- chapter 2. Geomorphology and late Quaternary environmental change : an overview of Central Southern Africa / Peter Holmes -- chapter 3. Dry lakes or pans of the western free state, South Africa : environmental history of Deelpan and possible early human impacts / Karl W. Butzer & John F. Oswald -- chapter 4. Homo Habilis and Australopithecus Africanus, in the context of a chronospecies and climatic change / J. Francis Thackeray -- chapter 5. The Fauresmith and archaeological systematics / Michael Chazan -- chapter 6. A reconstruction of the skull of Megalotragus Priscus (Broom, 1909), based on a find from Erfkroon, Modder River, South Africa, with notes on the chronology and biogeography of the species / James S. Brink, C. Britt Bousman & Rainer Gr?n -- chapter 7. Ostrich eggshell as a source of palaeoenvironmental information in the arid interior of South Africa : a case study from Wonderwerk cave / Michaela Ecker, Jennifer Botha-Brink, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Andr? Piuz & Liora Kolska Horwitz -- chapter 8. First chronological, palaeoenvironmental, and archaeological data from the Baden-Baden fossil spring complex in the western free state, South Africa / Andri C. van Aardt, C. Britt Bousman, James S. Brink, George A. Brook, Zenobia Jacobs, Pieter J. du Preez, Lloyd Rossouw & Louis Scott -- chapter 9. Charcoal from pre-Holocene stratum 5, Wonderwerk cave, South Africa / Marion K. Bamford -- chapter 10. Rediscovering the intriguing patrimonies depicted in rock shelters of Iringa, Tanzania / Makarius Peter Itambu -- chapter 11. The effects of global warming on the rock art in the Ukhahlambadrakensberg park world heritage site, South Africa / Alvord Nhundu -- chapter 12. Climate change adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry systems in Wolaita zone, southern highland of Ethiopia / Wondimu Tadiwos Hailesilassie. Discusses climate change impact on both the region of southern Africa, and the nation of South Africa. |