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• Hippopotamus (H. amphibius) diet change indicates herbaceous plant encroachment following megaherbivore population collapse

  <p>Megaherbivores (&gt;1000&thinsp;kg) are critical for ecosystem health and function, but face population collapse and extinction globally. The future of these megaherbivore-impoverished ecosystems is

  • 12/09/2016

  • Scientific Reports
  • • Flora
    • National Parks
    • Africa
    • Fauna
    • Uganda
    • Poaching
    • Endangered Species
    • Grasslands
    • Ecosystem Services

• High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

  Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been inferred that East African environments were cooler or more wooded during the Pliocene and Pleistocene when this region was a central stage of human evolution.

  • 22/06/2010

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Science
    • Life Science
    • Africa
    • Kenya
    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    • Benjamin H. Passey
    • Naomi E. Levin
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