Books in the Palaeoecology of Africa series in order

This book is volume 33 of the yearbook series `Palaeoecology of Africä presenting the outcome of a `tribute conference¿ to the internationally recognized South African researcher and palynologist Professor Louis Scott. The conference proceedings and articles published here highlight and celebrate Prof. Scott¿s contribution to palaeoscience and to the natural sciences in general. The conference was organized in July 2014 by the National Museum, Bloemfontein and the University of the Free State, South Africa, and focused on both past and present environments, ecosystems and climates of the arid regions of southern Africa, an area that serves as major focus of prof. Scott's research.

Collects papers that focus on the dynamics of the Central Sahara. This work covers Late Pleistocene and Holocene landscape evolution in the lower latitudes of Africa. It explores environmental changes in desert ecosystems and related development problems of Saharan countries. It is suitable for ecologists, earth scientists and climatologists.

This volume offers up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.

These papers derive from a workshop on "Quaternary Sedimentary Records in Central Africa and their Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation", held at the 15th INQUA Congress.

This reference provides up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines that give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.