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Science
; 337(6098): 1040; author reply 1040, 2012 Aug 31.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22936759
RESUMO
Bayon et al. (Reports, 9 March 2012, p. 1219) claim that the "rainforest crisis" in Central Africa centered around 2500 years before the present "was not triggered by natural climatic factors" and that it was caused by widespread deforestation resulting from the arrival of the Bantu colonists. However, there is a consensus among palaeoecologists that this landscape change and the related physical erosion it caused was due mainly to a shift to more seasonal rainfall regime.