Nature Today | Historic climate extremes along northeast coast of South America
A large quantity of fossils from the period just before and during the last ice age have been discovered in French Guiana. The area changed from a species-rich mangrove system to a dry grassland savannah in a relatively short period of time. So writes an international group of researchers, including UvA scientists Carina Hoorn and Nina Witteveen, in the scientific journal PNAS.
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