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Robert Marchant

Dr. Robert Marchant
KITE
Environment Dept.
University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1904 434061
Fax: +44 (0)1904 432998
E-mail: rm524@york.ac.uk
URL: www.york.ac.uk/res/kite/
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Key Publications of Robert Marchant (up to five) :
Marchant, R.A., Behling, H., Berrío, J.C., Cleef, A., Duivenvoorden, J., van Geel, B, van der Hammen, T., Hooghiemstra, H., Kuhry, P., Melief, B.M., van Reenen, G. and Wille, M. 2004. Mid to Late Holocene vegetation disturbance in Colombia – a regional reconstruction. Antiquity 78, 828-838.

Marchant, R.A. and Hooghiemstra, H. 2004. Rapid environmental change in tropical Africa and Latin America about 4000 years before present: a review. Earth Science Reviews 66, 217-260.

Marchant, R.A., Berrío, J.C., Behling, H., Boom, A. Hooghiemstra, H. 2006. Colombian dry moist forest transitions in the Llanos Orientales – a comparison of model and pollen-based biome reconstructions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 234, 28-44.

Marchant, R.A., Behling, H., 2005. Late Quaternary tropical Ecosystem Dynamics. Quaternary Research 64, 283.
Marchant, R.A., Behera, S., Yamagata , T. in press. The Indian Ocean Dipole – the unsung driver of climatic variability in East Africa. African Journal of Ecology.


Expertise of Robert Marchant:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
PAGES Topics	Climate Dynamics
	Ecosystem Processes
PAGES Timescales	Pleistocene (glacial-interglacial cycles)
	Holocene (10,000 years)
	Last Millennium
	Abrupt Events
PAGES Location	Americas
	Europe-Africa
PAGES Parameters	Ecosystems
PAGES Archives	Lake Sediments
PAGES Proxies	Pollen

Additional Specialties:
Understanding past, present and future tropical ecosystem dynamics, at a range of spatial and temporal scales, and using this knowledge to develop appropriate policy.

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