CLANIMAE: Climatic and Anthropogenic Impacts on African Ecosystems Funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BelSPO)

Contract SD/BD/03A, 2007-2008

This project uses multiple paleoenvironmental proxies in lake-sediment cores from Uganda and Kenya to reconstruct both past climatic variability and the history of vegetation and water-quality changes during recent millennia. Its main objectives are to separate the influences of natural climate variability and human impact on East African terrestrial ecosystems, and to determine the relative magnitude of pre-20th century anthropogenic land clearance compared to recent landscape alteration.

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