Interactive map of palaeoenvironmental sites in East Africa. Click the sites to find the relevant published studies and access the papers.

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Colin Courtney Mustaphi
15 December 2014

Sites and references

Amani Pond
Mumbi CT, Marchant R, Lane P (2014). Vegetation response to climate change and human impacts in the Usambara Mountains. ISRN Forestry 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISRN Forestry Volume 2014, Article ID 240510, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/240510

Dama Swamp
Mumbi, C. T., Marchant, R., Hooghiemstra, H., & Wooller, M. J. (2008). Late Quaternary vegetation reconstruction from the eastern Arc mountains, Tanzania. Quaternary Research, 69(2), 326-341.

Derema Swamp
Mumbi CT, Marchant R, Lane P (2014). Vegetation response to climate change and human impacts in the Usambara Mountains. ISRN Forestry 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISRN Forestry Volume 2014, Article ID 240510, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/240510

Deva-Deva Swamp
Finch JM, Marchant R (2011). A palaeoecological investigation into the role of fire and human activity in the development of montane grasslands in East Africa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20, 109-124.

Iringa
Mumbi CT, Marchant R, Hooghiemstra H, Wooller MJ (2008). Late Quaternary vegetation reconstruction from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Quaternary Research 69, 326-341.

Kimana Sanctuary
Esther N. Githumbi, Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, Rob Marchant. 2014. Natural and anthropogenic causes of environmental change in the Amboseli and Mau Forest regions. BIEA 2013-2014 annual report, pp 11-12.

Courtney Mustaphi, CJ; Githumbi, E; Shoemaker, A; Degefa, AZ; Petek, N; van der Plas, GW; Muriuki, RM; Rucina, SM; Marchant, R. 2014. Ongoing sedimentological and palaeoecological investigations at Lielerai Kimana and Ormakau Swamps, Kajiado District, Kenya. A report to the local authorities of Kimana and Namelok, Olive Branch Mission Africa Operations, and the National Museums of Kenya Palaeobotany and Palynology Section. REAL contribution 001. 29 April, 2014. 32 p.

Kitumbako Swamp
Finch JM, Marchant R (2011). A palaeoecological investigation into the role of fire and human activity in the development of montane grasslands in East Africa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20, 109-124.

Lomwe
Heckmann M, Muiruri V, Boom A, Marchant R (2014). Human-environment interactions in an agricultural landscape: a 1400-yr sediment and pollen record from North Pare, NE Tanzania. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 406, 49-61.

Madamu Swamp
Mumbi CT, Marchant R, Lane P (2014). Vegetation response to climate change and human impacts in the Usambara Mountains. ISRN Forestry 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporation ISRN Forestry Volume 2014, Article ID 240510, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/240510

Makoba Bay
Punwong P, Marchant R, Selby K (2013). Holocene mangrove dynamics in Makoba Bay, Zanzibar. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 379-380, 54-67

Mbomole Swamp
Mumbi CT, Marchant R, Lane P (2014). Vegetation response to climate change and human impacts in the Usambara Mountains. ISRN Forestry 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
ISRN Forestry
Volume 2014, Article ID 240510, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/240510

Mgundamvaha Grassland
Finch, Jemma, Matthew Wooller, and Rob Marchant. Tracing long‐term tropical montane ecosystem change in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Quaternary Science 29, no. 3 (2014): 269-278.

Mubwindi Swamp
Marchant, R., Taylor, D., & Hamilton, A. (1997). Late Pleistocene and Holocene history at Mubwindi swamp, southwest Uganda. Quaternary Research, 47(3), 316-328.

Namelok Swamp
Rucina SM, Muiruri VM, Downton L, Marchant R (2010). Late Holocene savanna dynamics in the Amboseli Basin, Kenya. Holocene 20, 667-677.

Esther N. Githumbi, Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, Rob Marchant. 2014. Natural and anthropogenic causes of environmental change in the Amboseli and Mau Forest regions. BIEA 2013-2014 annual report, pp 11-12.

Nyabuiyabui Swamp
Esther N. Githumbi, Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, Rob Marchant. 2014. Natural and anthropogenic causes of environmental change in the Amboseli and Mau Forest regions. BIEA 2013-2014 annual report, pp 11-12.

Courtney Mustaphi, CJ; Githumbi, E; Mutua, J; Muriuki, RM; Rucina, SM; Marchant, R. 2014. Ongoing sedimentological and palaeoecological investigations at Nyabuiyabui wetland, Kiptunga Forest Block, Eastern Mau Forest, Nakuru District, Kenya. Report to the Mau Forest Conservation Office, Kenya Forest Service, and the National Museums of Kenya Palaeobotany and Palynology Section. REAL contribution 002. 4 May 2014. 29 p.

Ormakau Swamp
Esther N. Githumbi, Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, Rob Marchant. 2014. Natural and anthropogenic causes of environmental change in the Amboseli and Mau Forest regions. BIEA 2013-2014 annual report, pp 11-12.

Rufiji Delta
Punwong P, Marchant R, Selby K (2013). Holocene mangrove dynamics and environmental change in the Rufiji Delta, Tanzania. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 22, 381-396

Rumuiku Swamp
Rucina SM, Muiruri VM, Kinyanjui RN, McGuiness K, Marchant R (2009). Late Quaternary vegetation and fire dynamics on Mount Kenya. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 283, 1-14.

Rucina S (2011). Kenya ecosystem dynamics: perspectives from high and low altitude ecosystems. Unpublished PhD thesis. Environemnt Dept. Univeristy of York.

Unguja Ukuu
Punwong P, Marchant R, Selby K (2013). Holocene mangrove dynamics from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar. Quaternary International 298, 4-19.

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