Comment on "Burrough, S.E., Breman, E., and Dodd, C., 2012. Can phytoliths provide an insight into past vegetation of the Middle Kalahari paleolakes during the late quaternary? Journal of Arid Environments 82, 156-164"

dc.contributor.authorCordova, C.E.
dc.contributor.authorChase, B.M.
dc.contributor.authorSmith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-11T07:57:24Z
dc.date.available2014-08-11T07:57:24Z
dc.date.issued2013-05
dc.description.abstractThis is a comment on the article of Burrough et al. (2012) in which they present a palaeoclimatic reconstruction based on phytolith assemblages from sandy shoreline deposits in the Makgadikgadi Basin, Botswana. While this work highlights a potentially important paleoenvironmental archive in a notably data-poor region, there are several fundamental short-comings in the Burrough et al. work in terms of the calibration of their findings with plant distributions and ecology. Not recognising these limitations in their article, the authors apply palaeoenvironmental indices that are regionally inappropriate, and which we argue in turn render their paleoenvironmental interpretations invalid. With no regionally specific reference collection being established, it may be the misidentification of phytolith morphotypes that has created the paradox that is posed by Burrough et al.en_US
dc.description.librarianhb2014en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipBMC was funded in part by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ 2007-2013) grant agreement no. 258657.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.elsevier.com/locate/jaridenven_US
dc.identifier.citationCordova, CE, Chase, BM & Smith, GF 2013, 'Comment on "Burrough, S.E., Breman, E., and Dodd, C., 2012. Can phytoliths provide an insight into past vegetation of the Middle Kalahari paleolakes during the late quaternary? Journal of Arid Environments 82, 156-164"', Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 92, pp. 113-116.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0140-1963 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1095-922X (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.12.007
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/41152
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights© 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Arid Environments. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 92, pp. 113-116, 2013. doi : 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.12.007.en_US
dc.subjectGrassesen_US
dc.subjectKalaharien_US
dc.subjectPhytolithsen_US
dc.subjectQuaternaryen_US
dc.subjectVegetationen_US
dc.subjectMakgadikgadi Basin, Botswanaen_US
dc.titleComment on "Burrough, S.E., Breman, E., and Dodd, C., 2012. Can phytoliths provide an insight into past vegetation of the Middle Kalahari paleolakes during the late quaternary? Journal of Arid Environments 82, 156-164"en_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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