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ArticleScience advances2025

East African uplift as a catalyst for Middle Miocene faunal transitions.

Niklas Werner, Zhenqian Wang, Lars Werdelin, Qiong Zhang

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. The origin and development of the Miocene northwest African savanna.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Niklas WernerDepartment of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8791-2867
Zhenqian WangDepartment of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1743-2227
Lars WerdelinDepartment of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9586-4017
Qiong ZhangDepartment of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9137-2883

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The East African uplift during the Miocene played a crucial role in reshaping regional climates, ecosystems, and faunal communities, contributing to a shift from forested landscapes to widespread grasslands. Here, we use the high-resolution Earth System Model EC-Earth3, coupled with a dynamic vegetation model, to simulate climate and vegetation responses to East African uplift across three key Miocene intervals (25, 20, and 15 Ma) under varying atmospheric CO

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Biological EvolutionAfrica, EasternAnimalsBiodiversityClimateClimate ChangeEcosystemForestsFossilsMammals

Identifiers

PMID41091858
PMCPMC12524987

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