Reply to Giresse et al.: No evidence for climate variability during the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany; [email protected].
• ² Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, CEREGE, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, France.
• ³ Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69342 Lyon, France.
• ⁴ PALOC, IRD, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France.
• ⁵ MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany.
• ⁶ Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, UNICAEN, M2C, CNRS, 76000 Rouen, France.
• ⁷ HSM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, 34095 Montpellier, France.
• ⁸ Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Geopolis, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, BP 20379 Libreville, Gabon.
• ¹⁰ Section 5.2, Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ-German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
• ¹¹ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LCE, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, France.
• ¹² Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• ¹³ Herbier National du Cameroun, Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• ¹⁴ Hydrological Research Centre, Institute of Geological and Mining Research, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• ¹⁵ Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Section 5.1, Geomorphology, GFZ-German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.