Owing to its diverse bioclimatic zones, long human history and intense anthropogenic impacts, Africa provides a model system for studying how global terrestrial ecosystems might respond to accelerated socio-environmental stress. Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change and human impact, and insufficient baseline data hamper current environmental management efforts. Using palaeoecological data, we seek to identify the timing, pace and drivers of change in African biomes on a long-term scale to inform current ecosystem management frameworks on the continent.

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非洲生物群落加速植被变化的长期驱动因素和时机及其管理意义

由于其多样化的生物气候区、悠久的人类历史和强烈的人为影响，非洲为研究全球陆地生态系统如何应对加速的社会环境压力提供了一个模型系统。非洲特别容易受到气候变化和人类影响的影响，基线数据不足阻碍了当前的环境管理工作。利用古生态学数据，我们寻求确定非洲生物群落长期变化的时间、速度和驱动因素，为非洲大陆当前的生态系统管理框架提供信息。