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North Africa

Recent climatic and anthropogenic impacts on endemic species in southwestern Morocco
Zhao X, Dupont L, Chedaddi R, Kölling M, Reddad H, Groeneveld J, Zohra Ain-Lhout F, Bouimetarhan I
Quaternary Science Reviews 221 (2019) 105889
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105889

Vegetation change, goats, and religion: A 2000-year history of land use in southern Morocco
McGregor H. Dupont L, Stuut, J-B, Kuhlmann H
Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (2009) 1434-1448
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.012

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
Hooghiemstra H, Stalling H, Agwu COC, Dupont LM
Review Palaeobotany Palynology 74 (1992) 1-53
doi:10.1016/0034-6667(92)90137-6

West Africa

The roles of fire in Holocene ecosystem changes of West Africa
Dupont LM, Schefuß E
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 481 (2018) 255-263
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.049

Pliocene environmental change in West Africa and the onset of strong NE trade winds (ODP Sites 659 and 658)
Vallé F, Dupont LM, Leroy SAG, Schefuß E, Wefer G
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 414 (2014) 403-414
doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.09.023

Sahel megadrought during Heinrich Stadial 1: Evidence for a three-phase evolution of the low- and mid-level West African wind system
Bouimetarhan I, Prange M, Schefuß E, Dupont L, Lippold J, Mulitza S, Zonneveld K
Quaternary Science Reviews 58 (2012) 66-76
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.015

Palynological evidence for climatic and oceanic variability off NW Africa during the late Holocene
Bouimetarhan I, Marret F, Dupont L, Zonneveld K
Quaternary Research 72 (2009) 188-197
10.1016/j.yqres.2009.05.003

n-Alkane and pollen reconstruction of terrestrial climate and vegetation for N.W. Africa over the last 160 kyr
Zhao M, Dupont L, Eglinton G, Teece M
Organic Geochemistry 34 (2003) 131-143
doi:10.1016/S0146-6380(02)00142-0

Composition, age, and provenance of organic matter in NW African dust over the Atlantic Ocean
Eglinton TI, Eglinton G, Dupont L, Sholkovitz ER, Montluçon D, Reddy CM
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 3 (2002) 8
10.1029/2001GC000269

Marine palynology of the ODP Site 658 (N-W Africa) and its contribution to the stratigraphy of Late Pliocene
Leroy S, Dupont L
Geobios 30 (1997) 351-359
doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(97)80194-5

Steps toward drier climatic conditions in north-western Africa during the Upper Pliocene
Dupont LM, Leroy SAG
In: Vrba E, Partridge T, Denton D, Burckle L (eds)
Palaeoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins
Yale University Press, New Haven (1995) 289-298

Development of vegetation and continental aridity in northwestern Africa during the Late Pliocene: the pollen record of ODP Site 658
Leroy S, Dupont L
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 109 (1994) 295-316
doi:10.1016/0031-0182(94)90181-3


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)
Dupont LM, Agwu COC
Vegetation History & Archaeobotany 1 (1992) 163-175
doi:10.1007/BF00191556


The Saharan-Sahelian boundary during the Brunhes chron

Dupont LM, Hooghiemstra H
Acta Botanica Neerlandica 38 (1989) 405-415
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1438-8677.1989.tb01372.x


Palynology of the last 680,000 years of ODP Site 658 (off NW-Africa): fluctuations in paleowind systems
Dupont LM
In: Leinen M, Sarnthein M (eds.) Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport, (1989) NATO ASI Series C282, Kluwer (1989) 779-794


First palynological results from ODP Site 658 at 21°N West off Africa: pollen as climate indicators
Dupont LM, Beug HJ, Stalling H, Tiedemann R
In: Ruddiman WF, Sarnthein M et al. (eds) Proceedings Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 108 (1989) 93-111
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/108_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/sr108_06.pdf

Equatorial Africa

The roles of climate and human land-use in the late Holocene rainforest crisis of Central Africa
Bayon G, Schefuß E, Dupont L, Borges AV, Deenielou B, Lambert T, Mollenhauer G, Monin L, Ponzevera E, Skonieczny C, André L
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 505 (2019) 30–41
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.016

The Congo deep-sea fan as an archive of Quaternary change in Africa and the eastern tropical South Atlantic
Dupont L
In: Kneller B, Martinsen OJ, McCaffrey B (eds)
External Controls on Deep-Water Depositional Systems
Society for Sedimentary Geology, Special Publication 92 (2009) 78-88

Mid-Pleistocene environmental change in tropical Africa began as early as 1.05 Ma
Dupont LM, Donner B, Schneider RR, Wefer G
Geology 29 (2001) 195-198
doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)0292.0.CO;2

Marine - terrestrial interaction of climate changes in West Equatorial Africa of the last 190,000 years
Dupont LM, Schneider R, Schmüser S, Jahns S
Palaeoecology of Africa 26 (1999) 61-84

Impacts of rapid sea-level rise on mangrove deposit erosion: application of taraxerol and Rhizophora records
Kim H-J, Dupont LM, Behling H, versteegh GJM
Journal Quaternary Science 20 (2005) 221-225
doi:10.1002/jqs.904

Taraxerol and Rhizophora pollen as proxies for tracking past Mangrove ecosystems
Versteegh GJM, Schefuß E, Dupont L, Marret F, Sinninghe Damsté J
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 (2004) 411-422
doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00456-3

Land-sea correlation by means of terrestrial and marine palynomorphs from the equatorial East Atlantic: phasing of SE trade winds and the oceanic productivity
Dupont LM, Marret F, Winn K
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 142 (1998) 51-84
doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00146-6

 

Angola

Masked millennial-scale climate variations in southwest Africa during the last glaciation
Hessler I, Dupont L, Handiani D, Paul A, Merkel U, Wefer G
Climate of the Past 8 (2012) 841-853
doi:10.5194/cp-8-841-2012

Thirty thousand years of vegetation development and climate change in Angola (ODP Site 1078)
Dupont LM, Behling H, Kim HJ
Climate of the Past 4 (2008) 107–124
doi:10.5194/cp-4-107-2008

Land-sea linkages during deglaciation: High resolution records from the eastern Atlantic off the coast of Namibia and Angola (ODP Site 1078)
Dupont LM, Behling H
Quaternary International 148 (2006) 19-28
doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2005.11.004

Southwest African climate independent of Atlantic sea surface temperatures during the Younger Dryas
Dupont LM, Kim J-H, Schneider RR, Shi N
Quaternary Research 61 (2004) 318-324
doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2004.02.005

Correlation between vegetation in Southwestern Africa and oceanic upwelling in the past 21,000 years
Shi N, Dupont LM, Beug H-J, Schneider RR
Quaternary Research 54 (2000) 72-80
doi;10.1006/qres.2000.2145

Vegetation and climate changes during the last 21 000 years in S.W. Africa based on a marine pollen record
Shi N, Dupont LM, Beug HJ, Schneider R
Vegetation History & Archaeobotany 7 (1998) 127-140
doi:10.1007/BF01374001

Vegetation history of SW Africa: a marine palynological record of the last 300,000 years
Shi N, Dupont LM
Vegetation History & Archaeobotany 6 (1997) 117-131
doi:10.1007/BF01261959

 

Namibia

Vegetation state changes in the course of shrub encroachment in an African savanna since about 1850 CE and their potential drivers
Tabares X, Zimmermann H, Dietze E, Ratzmann G, Belz L, Vieth-Hillebrand A, Dupont L, Wilkes H, Mapani B, Herzschuh U
Ecology and Evolution 10 (2020) 962-979
doi:10.1002/ece3.5955

Miocene–Pliocene vegetation change in south-western Africa (ODP Site 1081, offshore Namibia)
Hoetzel S, Dupont LM, Wefer G
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 423 (2015) 102-108
doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.002

The role of fire in Miocene to Pliocene C4 grassland and ecosystem evolution
Hoetzel S, Dupont L, Schefuß E, Rommerskirchen F, Wefer G
Nature Geoscience 6 (2013) 1027-1030
doi:10.1038/NGEO1984

Miocene to Pliocene changes in South African hydrology and vegetation in relation to the expansion of C4 plants
Dupont LM, Rommerskirchen F, Mollenhauer G, Schefuß E
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 375 (2013) 408-417
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.06.005

Late Pliocene climate change documented in seismic and palynology data at the southwestern African margin
Weigelt E, Dupont L, Uenzelmann-Neben G
Global and Planetary Change 63 (2008) 31-39
doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.05.001

Late Pliocene vegetation and climate in Namibia (southern Africa) derived from palynology of ODP Site 1082
Dupont L
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7 (2006) Q05007
doi:10.1029/2005GC001208

Linking desert evolution and coastal upwelling: Pliocene climate change in Namibia
Dupont LM, Donner B, Vidal L, Pérez EM, Wefer G
Geology 33 (2005) 461-464
doi:10.1130/G21401.1

SE trade wind variations during the last 135 ka: evidence from pollen spectra in eastern South Atlantic sediments
Shi N, Schneider R, Beug HJ, Dupont LM
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 187 (2001) 311-321
doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00267-9

 

South Africa

Continuous vegetation record of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) covering the past 300 000 years (IODP U1479)
Dupont LM, Zhao X, Charles C, Faith JT, Braun D
Climate of the Past 18 (2022) 1-21
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1-2022

Hydroclimate change in subtropical South Africa during the mid-Piacenzian Warm Period
Zhao X, Koutsodendris A, Caley T, Dupont L
Quaternary Science Reviews 249 (2020) 106643
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106643

Holocene hydrologic and vegetation developments in the Orange River catchment (South Africa) and their controls
Burdanowitz N, Dupont L, Zabel M, Schefuß E
The Holocene 28 (2018) 1288-1300
10.1177/0959683618771484

Pollen distribution in the marine surface sediments of the mudbelt along the west coast of South Africa
Zhao X, Dupont L, Meadows ME, Wefer G
Quaternary International 404 (2016) 44-56
doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.032

Holocene vegetation and climate variability in the winter and summer rainfall zones of South Africa
Zhao X, Dupont L, Schefuß E, Meadows ME, Hahn A, Wefer G
The Holocene 26 (2016) 843-857
doi:10.1177/0959683615622544

Climate-driven rampant speciation of the Cape flora
Dupont LM, Linder HP, Rommerskirchen F, Schefuß E
Journal of Biogeography 38 (2011) 1059-1068
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02476.x

East Africa

Temperature change in subtropical southeastern Africa during the past 790,000 yr
Chevalier M, Chase BM, Quick LJ, Dupont LM, Johnson TC
Geology 49 (2020) 5p
doi:10.1130/G47841.1

Effects of atmospheric CO2 variability of the past 800 kyr on the biomes of southeast Africa
Dupont LM, Caley T, Castañeda I
Climate of the Past 15 (2019) 1083–1097
doi:10.5194/cp-15-1083-2019

A 2 million year hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa
Caley T, Extier T, Collins JA, Schefuß E, Dupont L, Malaizé B, Rossignol L, Souron A, McClymont EL, Jimenez-Espejo FJ, Garcia-Comas C, Eynaud F, Martinez P, Jorry SJ, Charlier K, Wary M, Gourves P-Y, Billy I, Giraudeau, J
Nature 560 (2018) 76-79
doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0309-6

Glacial-interglacial vegetation change in the Zambezi catchment
Dupont LM, Kuhlmann H
Quaternary Science Reviews 155 (2017) 127-135
doi:101016/jquascirev201611019

Middle to Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate change in subtropical southern East Africa
Castañeda I, Caley T, Dupont L, Kim J-H, Malaizé B, Schouten S
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 450 (2016) 306-316
doi:101016/jepsl201606049

Northern Hemisphere control of deglacial vegetation changes in the Rufiji uplands (Tanzania)
Boutmetarhan I, Dupont LM, Kuhlmann H, Pätzold J, Prange M, Schefuß E, Zonneveld K
Climate of the Past 11 (2015) 751-764
doi:10.5194/cp-11-751-2015

Glacial-Interglacial vegetation dynamics in south eastern Africa depend on sea surface temperature variations in the western Indian Ocean
Dupont LM, Caley T, Kim JH, Castaneda I, Malaizé B, Giraudeau J
Climate of the Past 7 (2011) 1209-1224
doi:105194/cp-7-1209-2011

 

South America

Piacenzian environmental change and the onset of cool and dry conditions in tropical South America
Grimmer F, Dupont L, Jung G, Wefer G
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35 (2020) e2020PA004060
doi:10.1029/2020PA004060

Early Pliocene vegetation and hydrology changes in western equatorial South America
Grimmer F, Dupont L, Lamy F, Jung G, González C, Wefer G
Climate of the Past 14 (2018) 1739-1754
doi:10.5194/cp-14-1739-2018

Intermittent development of forest corridors in northeastern Brazil during the last deglaciation: Climatic and ecologic evidence
Bouimetarhan I, Chiessi CM, González-Arango C, Dupont L, Voigt I, Prange M, Zonneveld K
Quaternary Science Reviews 192 (2018) 86-96
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.026

Two-step vegetation response to enhanced precipitation in Northeast Brazil during Heinrich event 1
Dupont LM, Schlütz F, Teboh Ewah C, Jennerjahn TC, Paul A, Behling H
Global Change Biology 16 (2010) 1647-1660
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02023.x

Tropical vegetation evidence for rapid sea level changes associated with Heinrich Events
González C, Dupont LM
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 9 (2010) 012003
10.1088/1755-1315/9/1/012003

Tropical salt marsh succession as sea-level indicator during Heinrich events
González C, Dupont LM
Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (2009) 939-946
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.12.023

Neotropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes during the last glacial period: Palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin
González C, Dupont, LM, Behling H, Wefer G
Quaternary Research 69 (2008) 217-230
doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2007.12.001

Indonesia

Differential hydro-climatic evolution of East Javanese ecosystems over the past 22,000 years
Ruan Y, Mohtadi M, Van der Kaars S, Dupont LM, Hebbeln D, Schefuß E
Quaternary Science Reviews 218 (2019) 49-60
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.015