Impact of human land-use and rainfall variability in tropical dry forests of southwest Madagascar during the late Holocene

Over the last 2000 years, climatic and anthropogenic factors have influenced vegetation in Madagascar, but the contribution of these two factors has been the subject of intense debate, a debate hampered by the scarcity of palaeoecological studies on the island. Southwest Madagascar is semi-arid and...

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Main Author: Razanatsoa, Estelle
Other Authors: Gillson, Lindsey
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Science 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30450