Modern African ecosystems as landscape-scale analogues for reconstructing woody cover and early hominin environments.

Autor: Negash EW; Division of Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. Electronic address: enegash@ldeo.columbia.edu., Alemseged Z; Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, 1027 E57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA., Barr WA; Department of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, George Washington University, 800 22nd St NW, Suite 6000, Washington D.C. 20052, USA., Behrensmeyer AK; Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 121, Washington D.C. 20013, USA., Blumenthal SA; Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1321 Kincaid Street, Eugene, OR 97403, USA; Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2207 Main Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada., Bobe R; Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, United Kingdom; Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique; ICArEHB, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal., Carvalho S; Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, United Kingdom; Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique; ICArEHB, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal., Cerling TE; Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 115 South 1460 East, FASB, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA., Chritz KL; Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2207 Main Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada., McGuire E; Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 1321 Kincaid Street, Eugene, OR 97403, USA., Uno KT; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA., Wood B; Department of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, George Washington University, 800 22nd St NW, Suite 6000, Washington D.C. 20052, USA., Wynn JG; Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Ave, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA.

Publikováno v: Journal of human evolution [J Hum Evol] 2024 Dec; Vol. 197, pp. 103604. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 13.

Greenhouse gas emission from prescribed fires is influenced by vegetation types in West African Savannas.

Autor: Yaro, Valaire Séraphin Ouehoudja¹ (AUTHOR) valaire.yaro@ujkz.bf, Bondé, Loyapin¹ (AUTHOR), Bougma, Pawend-taoré Christian¹ (AUTHOR), Sedgo, Issoufou¹ (AUTHOR), Guuroh, Reginald Tang^2,3,4 (AUTHOR), Gebremichael, Amanuel Woldeselassie^3,5 (AUTHOR), Neya, Tiga⁶ (AUTHOR), Linstädter, Anja³ (AUTHOR), Ouédraogo, Oumarou¹ (AUTHOR)

Publikováno v: Scientific Reports. 10/10/2024, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p1-12. 12p.

Land transformation in tropical savannas preferentially decomposes newly added biomass, whether C 3 or C 4 derived.

Autor: Wynn JG; Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314, USA., Duvert C; Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, North Territory, Australia., Bird MI; College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia., Munksgaard NC; College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia., Setterfield SA; School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia., Hutley LB; Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, North Territory, Australia.

Publikováno v: Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America [Ecol Appl] 2020 Dec; Vol. 30 (8), pp. e02192. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jul 28.

Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C 4 foods in eastern African Paranthropus .

Autor: Wynn JG; Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA 22314; jwynn@nsf.gov., Alemseged Z; Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637., Bobe R; School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PE, United Kingdom.; Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique., Grine FE; Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794., Negash EW; Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052., Sponheimer M; Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80302.

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2020 Sep 08; Vol. 117 (36), pp. 21978-21984. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 24.

Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins.

Autor: Alemseged Z; Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA. alemseged@uchicago.edu., Wynn JG; Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA., Geraads D; CR2P, Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, UPMC, CP 38, 8 rue Buffon, 75231, PARIS Cedex 05, France., Reed D; Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA., Andrew Barr W; Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology. Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA., Bobe R; Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab, Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.; Gorongosa National Park, Sofala, Mozambique.; Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behavior (ICArEHB), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal., McPherron SP; Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany., Deino A; Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA, USA., Alene M; School of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University, P. O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., J Sier M; CENIEH, Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002, Burgos, Spain.; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK., Roman D; Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, 20015-1305, USA., Mohan J; Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469-5790, USA.

Publikováno v: Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2020 May 19; Vol. 11 (1), pp. 2480. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 19.