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Handiani, D., Paul, A. & Dupont, L. (2012) Tropical climate and vegetation changes during Heinrich Event 1: a model-data comparison. Climate of the Past, 8: 37-57. doi:10.5194/cp-8-37-2012

Dupont, L.M. (2011) Orbital scale vegetation change in Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30: 3589-3602. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.019
Dupont, L.M., Linder H.P., Rommerskirchen, F. & Schefuß, E. (2011) Climate-driven rampant speciation of the Cape flora. Journal of Biogeography, 38: 1059-1068. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02476.x
Dupont, L.M., Caley, T., Kim, J.-H., Castañeda, I., Malaizé, B. & Giraudeau, J. (2011) Glacial-Interglacial vegetation dynamics in south eastern Africa depend on sea surface temperature variations in the western Indian Ocean. Climate of the Past, 7: 1209-1224. doi:10.5194/cp-7-1209-2011
Hessler, I., Steinke, S., Groeneveld, J., Dupont, L. & Wefer, G. (2011) Impact of abrupt climate change in the tropical southeast Atlantic during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3. Paleoceanography, 26, PA4209: 1-11. doi:10.1029/2011PA002118
Rommerskirchen, F., Condon, T., Mollenhauer, G., Dupont, L. & Schefuß, E. (2011) Miocene to Pliocene development of surface and sub-surface temperatures in the Benguela Current System. Paleoceanography, 26, PA3216: 1-15. doi:10.1029/2010PA002074

Dupont, L.M., Schlütz, F., Teboh Ewah, C., Jennerjahn, T.C., Paul, A. & Behling, H. (2010) Two-step vegetation response to enhanced precipitation in Northeast Brazil during Heinrich event 1. Global Change Biology, 16: 1647-1660. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02023.x
Enters, D., Behling, H., Mayr, C., Dupont, L., Zolitschka, B. (2010) Holocene environmental dynamics of south-eastern Brazil recorded in laminated sediments of Lago Aleixo. Journal of Paleolimnology, 44: 265–277. doi:10.1007/s10933-009-9402-z
González, C. & Dupont, L. (2010) Tropical vegetation evidence for rapid sea level changes associated with Heinrich Events. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 9, 012003: 1-8. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/9/1/012003
Hessler, I., Dupont, L., Bonnefille, R., Behling, H., González, C., Helmens, K.F., Hooghiemstra, H., Lebamba, J., Ledru, M.-P-. Lézine, A.M., Maley, J., Marret, F. & Vincens, K. (2010) Millennial-scale changes in vegetation records from tropical Africa and South America during the last glacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29: 2882–2899. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.029

Dupont, L.M. (2009) The Congo deep-sea fan as an archive of Quaternary change in Africa and the eastern tropical South Atlantic. In: Kneller, B., Martinsen, O.J. & McCaffrey, B. (eds.) External Controls on Deep-Water Depositional Systems. Society for Sedimentary Geology, Special Publication 92: 78-88.
Bouimetarhan, I., Dupont, L., Schefuß, E., Mollenhauer, G., Mulitza, S. & Zonneveld, K. (2009) Palynological evidence for climatic and oceanic variability off NW Africa during the late Holocene. Quaternary Research, 72: 188-197. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2009.05.003
Bouimetarhan, I., Marret, F. Dupont, L. & Zonneveld, K. (2009) Dinoflagellate cyst distribution in marine surface sediments off West Africa (17 – 6°N) in relation to sea-surface conditions, freshwater input and seasonal coastal upwelling. Marine Micropaleontology, 71: 113-130. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2009.02.001
McGregor, H., Dupont, L., Stuut, J.-B. & Kuhlmann, H. (2009) Vegetation change, goats, and religion: A 2000-year history of land use in southern Morocco. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 1434-1448. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.012
González, C. & Dupont, L. (2009) Coastal vegetation evidence for sea level changes associated with Heinrich Events. PAGES News, 17: 70-72. 
González, C. & Dupont, L. (2009) Tropical salt marsh succession as sea-level indicator during Heinrich events. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 939-946. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.023

Dupont, L.M., Behling, H. & Kim, H.-J. (2008) Thirty thousand years of vegetation development and climate change in Angola (ODP Site 1078). Climate of the Past, 4: 107–124. MARUM0590 http://www.clim-past.net/4/107/2008/cp-4-107-2008.html
González, C., Dupont, L.M., Behling, H.& Wefer, G. (2008) Neotropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes during the last glacial period: Palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin. Quaternary Research, 69: 217-230.
González, C., Dupont, L.M., Mertens, K. & Wefer, G. (2008) Reconstructing marine productivity of the Cariaco Basin during marine isotope stages 3 and 4 using organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts. Paleoceanography, 23: PA3215, 1-16. doi:10.1029/2008PA001602
Weigelt, E., Dupont, L. & Uenzelmann-Neben, G. (2008) Late Pliocene climate change documented in seismic and palynology data at the southwestern African margin. Global and Planetary Change, 63: 31-39.

Behling, H., Dupont, L., Safford, H.D. & Wefer, G. (2007) Late Quaternary vegetation and climate dynamics in the Serra da Bocaina, southeastern Brazil. Quaternary International,161: 22-31.
Dupont, L., Behling, H., Jahns, S., Marret, S. & Kim, J.-H. (2007) Variability in glacial and Holocene marine pollen records offshore west southern Africa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 16: 87-100.

Rommerskirchen, F., Eglinton, G., Dupont, L. & Rullkötter. J. (2006) Glacial/interglacial changes in Southern Africa: compound-specific d13C land plant biomarker and pollen records from Southeast Atlantic continental margin sediments – Part II. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7(8): 1-21. doi: 10.1029/2005GC001223.
Dupont, L.M. (2006) Late Pliocene vegetation and climate in Namibia (southern Africa) derived from palynology of ODP Site 1082. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7(5): 1-15. doi: 10.1029/2005GC001208.
Hooghiemstra, H., Lézine, A.-M., Leroy, S., Dupont, L. & Marret, F. (2006) Late Quaternary palynology in marine sediments: A synthesis of the understanding of pollen distribution patterns in the NW African setting. Quaternary International, 148: 29-44.
Dupont, L.M. & Behling, H. (2006) Land-sea linkages during deglaciation: High resolution records from the eastern Atlantic off the coast of Namibia and Angola (ODP Site 1078). Quaternary International, 148: 19-28.

Kim, J.-H., Dupont, L.M., Behling, H. & Versteegh, G.J.M. (2005) Impacts of rapid sea level rise on mangrove deposit erosion: Application of taraxerol and Rhizophora records. Journal Quaternary Science, 20: 221-225.
Dupont, L.M., Donner, B., Vidal, L., Pérez, E.M. & Wefer, G. (2005) Linking desert evolution and coastal upwelling: Pliocene climate change in Namibia. Geology, 33: 461-464. 
Hoelzmann, P., Gasse, F., Dupont, L.M., Salzmann, U., Staubwasser, M., Leuschner, D.C. & Sirocko, F. (2004) Palaeoenvironmental changes in the arid and sub arid belt (Sahara-Sahel-Arabian Peninsula) from 150 kyr to present. In: Batterbee, R.W., Gasse, F., Stickley, C.E. (eds). Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa. Springer (Dordrecht): 219-256.
Versteegh, G.J.M., Schefuß. E., Dupont, L., Marret, F., Sinninghe Damsté, J. & Jansen, F. (2004) Taraxerol and Rhizophora pollen as proxies for tracking past Mangrove ecosystems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68: 411-422. doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00456-3
Dupont, L.M., Kim, J.-H., Schneider, R.R. & Shi, N. (2004) Southwest African climate independent of Atlantic sea surface temperatures during the Younger Dryas. Quaternary Research 61: 318-324.
Wagner, T., Zabel, M., Dupont, L., Holvoeth, J & Schubert, C.J. (2003) Terrigenous signals in sediments of the low latitude Atlantic – implications to environmental variations during the late Quaternary: part I, organic carbon. In: Wefer, G., Mulitza, S., & Ratmeyer, V. (eds.). The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Material Budget and Current Systems. Springer, Berlin: 295-322. 
Rommerskirchen, R., Eglinton, G., Dupont, L., Güntner, U., Wenzel, C. & Rullkötter, J. (2003) A North to South Transect of Holocene Southeast Atlantic Continental Margin Sediments: Relationship between Aerosol Transport and Compound-Specific d13C Land Plant Biomarker and Pollen Records. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 4: 1101 doi: 10.1029/2003GC000541
Zhao, M., Dupont, L., Eglinton, G. & Teece, M. (2003) n-Alkane and pollen reconstruction of terrestrial climate and vegetation for N.W. Africa over the last 160 kyr. Organic Geochemistry, 34: 131-143.
Romero, O.E., Dupont, L., Wyputta, U., Jahns, S. & Wefer, G. (2003) Temporal variability of fluxes of eolian transported freshwater diatoms, phytoliths, and pollen grains off Cape Blanc as reflection of land-atmosphere-ocean interactions in northwest Africa. Journal Geophysical Results, 108 C5 (Oceans): 3153-3164. doi:10.1029/2000JC000375
Dupont, L.M. & Wyputta, U. (2003) Reconstructing pathways of aeolian pollen transport to the marine sediments along the coastline of SW Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 22: 157-174.
Eglinton, T.I., Eglinton, G., Dupont, L., Sholkovitz, E.R., Montluçon, D. & Reddy, C.M. (2002) Composition, age, and provenance of organic matter in NW African dust over the Atlantic Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 3: 1-27. doi: 10.1029/2001GC000269
Shi, N., Schneider, R., Beug, H.-J. & Dupont, L.M. (2001) SE trade wind variations during the last 135 ka: evidence from pollen spectra in eastern South Atlantic sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 187: 311-321.
Jansen, J.H.F & Dupont, L.M. (2001) Data report: A revised composite depth record for Site 1077 based on magnetic susceptibility and XRF (Cortex) data. In: Wefer, G., Berger, W.H., Richter, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 175: 1-10 (online).
Dupont, L.M., Donner, B., Schneider, R.R. & Wefer, G. (2001) Mid-Pleistocene environmental change in tropical Africa began as early as 1.05 Ma. Geology, 29: 195-198.
Shi, N. Dupont, L.M., Beug, H.-J. & Schneider, R. (2000) Correlation between vegetation in Southwestern Africa and oceanic upwelling in the past 21,000 years. Quaternary Research, 54: 72-80.
Huang, Y., Dupont. L., Sarnthein, M., Hayes, J.M. & Eglinton, E. (2000) Mapping of C4 plant input from North West Africa into North East Atlantic sediments. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 64: 3505-3513.
Dupont, L.M., Jahns, S., Marret, F. & Shi, N. (2000) Vegetation change in equatorial West Africa: Time-slices for the last 150ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 155: 95-122.

Wagner, T. & Dupont, L.M. (1999) Terrestrial OM in marine sediments: analytical approaches and eolian-marine records of the central Equatorial Atlantic. In: Fischer, G. & Wefer, G. (eds.). Proxies in Paleoceanography, examples from the South Atlantic. Springer, Berlin: 547-574. 
Dupont, L.M., Schneider, R., Schmüser, S. & Jahns, S. (1999) Marine - terrestrial interaction of climate changes in West Equatorial Africa of the last 190,000 years. Palaeoecology of Africa, 26: 61-84.
Dupont, L.M. & Leroy, S.A.G. (1999) Climatic changes in the Late Pliocene of NW Africa from a pollen record on an astronomically tuned timescale. In: Wrenn, J.H., Suc, J.-P., Leroy, S.A.G. (eds.). The Pliocene, Time of Change. AASP: 145-161.
Dupont, L.M. (1999) Pollen and spores in marine sediments from the east Atlantic. A view from the ocean into the African continent. In: Fischer, G. & Wefer, G. (eds.). Proxies in Paleoceanography, examples from the South Atlantic. Springer, Berlin: 523-546.
Shi, N., Dupont, L.M., Beug, H.-J. & Schneider, R. (1998) Vegetation and climate changes during the last 21 000 years in S.W. Africa based on a marine pollen record. Vegetation History & Archaeobotany, 7: 127-140. 
Dupont, L.M., Marret, F. & Winn, K. (1998) Land-sea correlation by means of terrestrial and marine palynomorphs from the equatorial East Atlantic: phasing of SE trade winds and the oceanic productivity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 142: 51-84.
Dupont, L.M. (1998) Pollen and dinoflagellate cysts of the upper 50m of Site 958. In: Firth, J. (ed.). Proceedings ODP, Scientific Results, 159T. College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program): 23-30.
Shi, N. & Dupont, L.M. (1997) Vegetation history of SW Africa: a marine palynological record of the last 300,000 year. Vegetation History & Archaeobotany, 6: 117-131.
Leroy, S. & Dupont, L. (1997) Marine palynology of the ODP Site 658 (N-W Africa) and its contribution to the stratigraphy of Late Pliocene. Geobios, 30: 351-359.
Dupont, L.M., Shi, N., Jahns, S. & Marret, F. (1996) Podocarpus in West Africa during the Late Pleistocene. Palaeoecology of Africa, 24: 85-101.
Dupont, L.M. & Weinelt, M. (1996) Vegetation history of the savanna corridor between the Guinean and the Congolian rain forest during the last 150,000 years. Vegetation History & Archaeobotany, 5: 273-292.
Suc, J.P., Diniz, F., Leroy, S., Poumot, C., Bertini, A., Dupont, L., Clet, M., Bessais, E., Zheng, Z., Fauquette, S. & Ferrier, E. (1995) Zanclean (~Brunssumian) to early Piacenzian (~lower-middle Reuverian) climate from 4° to 54° north latitude (West Africa, West Europe, and West Mediterranean areas). Mededelingen Rijksgeologische Dienst, 52: 43-56.
Dupont, L.M. & Leroy, S.A.G. (1995) Steps toward drier climatic conditions in north-western Africa during the Upper Pliocene. In: Vrba, E., Partridge, T., Denton, D. & Burckle, L. (eds.). Palaeoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins. Yale University Press, New Haven; 289-298. 
Dupont, L.M. (1995) Lowland rain forest and afromontane forest in West equatorial Africa during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. In: 2nd Symposium on African Palynology, Tervuren (Belgium). Publication Occasionelle CIFEG, 1995/31. Orléans: 87-98.
Leroy, S. & Dupont, L. (1994) Development of vegetation and continental aridity in northwestern Africa during the Late Pliocene: the pollen record of ODP Site 658. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 109: 295-316.
Dupont, L.M. (1993) Vegetation zones in NW Africa during the Brunhes Chron reconstructed from marine palynological data. Quaternary Science Reviews, 12: 189-202.
Mallorca Group (1992) Interglacial-glacial transitions. In: Kukla, G.J. & Went, E. (eds.). Start of a Glacial. NATO ASI Series I3, Springer: 1-13.
Hooghiemstra, H., Stalling, H., Agwu, C.O.C. & Dupont, L.M. (1992) Vegetational and climatic changes at the northern fringe of the Sahara 250,000-5000 years BP: evidence from 4 marine pollen records located between Portugal and the Canary Islands. Review Palaeobotany Palynology, 74: 1-53.
Dupont, L.M. & Agwu, C.O.C. (1992) Latitudinal shifts of forest and savanna in N.W. Africa during the Brunhes chron: further marine palynological results from site M 16415 (9°N 19°W). Vegetation History & Archaeobotany, 1: 163-175.
Dupont, L.M. (1992) Marine palynology of interglacial-glacial transitions. In: Kukla, G.J. & Went, E. (eds.). Start of a Glacial. NATO ASI Series I3, Springer: 137-155.
Dupont, L.M. & Beug, H.-J. (1991) Marine palynological studies off NW Africa. Palaeoecology of Africa, 22: 135-155.
Dupont, L.M. & Agwu, C.O.C. (1991) Environmental control of pollen grain distribution in the Gulf of Guinea and offshore NW-Africa. Geologische Rundschau, 80: 567-589.

Ruddiman, W.F., Sarnthein, M., Baldauf, J.G., Curry, W., Dupont, L.M., Janecek, T., Pokras, E.M., Raymo, M.E., Stabell, B., Stein, R. & Tiedemann, R. (1989) Late Miocene to Pleistocene evolution of climate in Africa and the low-latitude Atlantic: overview of Leg 108 results. In: Ruddiman, W.F., Sarnthein, M. et al. (eds.). Proceedings ODP, Scientific Results, 108. Ocean Drilling Program: 463-484.
Geel, B. van, Bregman, R., Molen, P.C. van der, Dupont, L.M. & Driel-Murray, C. van (1989) Holocene raised bog deposits in the Netherlands as geochemical archives of prehistoric aerosols. Acta Botica Neerlandica, 38: 467-476.
Dupont, L.M., Beug, H.-J., Stalling, H. & Tiedemann, R. (1989) First palynological results from ODP Site 658 at 21°N West off Africa: pollen as climate indicators. In: Ruddiman, W.F., Sarnthein, M. et al. (eds.). Proceedings ODP, Scientific Results, 108. Ocean Drilling Program: 93-111.
Dupont, L.M. & Hooghiemstra, H. (1989) The Saharan-Sahelian boundary during the Brunhes chron. Acta Botanica Neerlandica, 38: 405-415.
Dupont, L.M. (1989) Palynology of the last 680,000 years of ODP Site 658 (off NW-Africa): fluctuations in paleowind systems. In: Leinen, M. & Sarnthein, M. (eds.). Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport. NATO ASI Series C282, Kluwer: 779-794.
Steffan, H. & Dupont, L.M. (1988) Note on a program for plotting of pollen diagrams with an Atari ST microcomputer. Pollen & Spores, 30: 125-130.
Dupont, L.M. & Mook, W.G. (1987) Palaeoclimate analysis of 2H/1H ratios in peat sequences with variable plant composition. Chemical Geology, 66: 323-333.
Dupont, L.M. (1987) Palaeoecological reconstruction of the successive stands of vegetation leading to a raised bog in the Meerstalblok area (the Netherlands). Review Palaeobotany Palynology, 51: 271-287.
Dupont, L.M. (1986) Temperature and rainfall variation in the Holocene based on comparative palaeoecology and isotope geology of a hummock and a hollow (Bourtangerveen, the Netherlands). Review Palaeobotany Palynology, 48: 71-159.
Boon, J.J., Dupont, L.M. & Leeuw, J.W. de (1986) Characterisation of a peat bog profile by Curie point pyrolysis-mass specrometry combined with multivariant analysis and by pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. In: Fuchsman, C.H. (ed.), Peat and Water. Elsevier: 215-239.
Dupont, L.M. & Brenninkmeyer, C.A.M. (1984) Palaeobotanic and isotopic analysis of late subboreal and early subatlantic peat from Engbertsdijksveen VII, the Netherlands. Review Palaeobotany Palynology, 41: 241-271.
Dupont, L.M. (1979) On gene flow between Tetranychus urticae Koch, 1836 and Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) Boudraux, 1956 (Acari: Tetranichidae): synonomy between the two species. Entomologica experimentalis & applicata, 25: 297-303.
Dupont, L.M. (1979) Note on variation in Diacria Gray, 1847, with descriptions of a species new to science, Diacria rampali nov.spec., and a forma new to science, Diacria trispinosa forma atlantica nov.forma. Malacologia, 18: 37-52.

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