Sarah Ivory

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Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Geosciences

Sarah Ivory is an ecologist and geologist who uses fossil pollen records to better understand past ecosystem change in order to inform future conservation strategies. She also works with models and remote sensing data to observe the processes that drive tropical ecological change and vegetation responses to climate in the past. This work focuses on vegetation and climate history from the recent past to millions of years ago in order to evaluate future range changes and land-use impacts in hotspots of global biodiversity.

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Recent Publications

Long-term drivers and timing of accelerated vegetation changes in African biomes and their management implications

Adeleye, M. A., Connor, S. E., Haberle, S. G., Ivory, S. & Adeonipekun, P. A., Aug 2022, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31, 8, p. 1643-1654 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Increased Erosion Rates Following the Onset of Pleistocene Periglaciation at Bear Meadows, Pennsylvania, USA

Del Vecchio, J., DiBiase, R. A., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Caffee, M. W. & Ivory, S. J., Feb 28 2022, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 49, 4, e2021GL096739.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

The dynamics of warming during the last deglaciation in high-elevation regions of Eastern Equatorial Africa

Garelick, S., Russell, J., Richards, A., Smith, J., Kelly, M., Anderson, N., Jackson, M. S., Doughty, A., Nakileza, B., Ivory, S., Dee, S. & Marshall, C., Apr 1 2022, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 281, 107416.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Cutmarked bone of drought-tolerant extinct megafauna deposited with traces of fire, human foraging, and introduced animals in SW Madagascar

Hixon, S. W., Domic, A. I., Douglass, K. G., Roberts, P., Eccles, L., Buckley, M., Ivory, S., Noe, S. & Kennett, D. J., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 18504.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Gondwanan survivor lineages and the high-risk biogeography of Anthropocene Southeast Asia

Kooyman, R. M., Ivory, S. J., Benfield, A. J. & Wilf, P., Jul 2022, In: Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 60, 4, p. 715-727 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

SEDIMENTARY GEOCHEMISTRY OF DEEPWATER SLOPE DEPOSITS IN SOUTHERN LAKE TANGANYIKA (EAST AFRICA): EFFECTS OF UPWELLING AND MINOR LAKE LEVEL OSCILLATIONS

McGlue, M. M., Ellis, G. S., Brannon, M. A., Latimer, J. C., Stone, J. R., Ivory, S. J., Mganza, N. E., Soreghan, M. J. & Scholz, C. A., 2022, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 92, 8, p. 721-738 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Influence of Late Holocene Climate Change and Human Land Use on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems in Southwest Madagascar

Domic, A. I., Hixon, S. W., Velez, M. I., Ivory, S. J., Douglass, K. G., Brenner, M., Curtis, J. H., Culleton, B. J. & Kennett, D. J., Dec 7 2021, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9, 688512.

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Drought coincided with, but does not explain, late holocene megafauna extinctions in SW Madagascar

Hixon, S. W., Curtis, J. H., Brenner, M., Douglass, K. G., Domic, A. I., Culleton, B. J., Ivory, S. J. & Kennett, D. J., Sep 2021, In: Climate. 9, 9, 138.

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Climate, vegetation, and weathering across space and time in Lake Tanganyika (tropical eastern Africa)

Ivory, S. J., McGlue, M. M., Peterman, C., Baldwin, P., Lucas, J., Cohen, A., Russell, J., Saroni, J., Msaky, E., Kimirei, I. & Soreghan, M., Apr 2021, In: Quaternary Science Advances. 3, 100023.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Human landscape modification and expansion of tropical woodland in southern Arabia during the mid-Holocene from rock hyrax middens

Ivory, S. J., Cole, K. L., Anderson, R. S., Anderson, A. & McCorriston, J., Oct 2021, In: Journal of Biogeography. 48, 10, p. 2588-2603 16 p.

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Erratum: Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years (Science DOI: 10.1126/science.abg1685)

Mottl, O., Flantua, S. G. A., Bhatta, K. P., Felde, V. A., Giesecke, T., Goring, S., Grimm, E. C., Haberle, S., Hooghiemstra, H., Ivory, S., Kuneš, P., Wolters, S., Seddon, A. W. R. & Williams, J. W., Jul 9 2021, In: Science. 373, 6551, eabk222.

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

Mottl, O., Flantua, S. G. A., Bhatta, K. P., Felde, V. A., Giesecke, T., Simon Goring, G., Grimm, E. C., Haberle, S., Hooghiemstra, H., Ivory, S., Kuneš, P., Wolters, S., Seddon, A. W. R. & Williams, J. W., May 21 2021, In: Science. 372, 6544, p. 860-864 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa

Thompson, J. C., Wright, D. K., Ivory, S. J., Choi, J. H., Nightingale, S., Mackay, A., Schilt, F., Otárola-Castillo, E., Mercader, J., Forman, S. L., Pietsch, T., Cohen, A. S., Arrowsmith, J. R., Welling, M., Davis, J., Schiery, B., Kaliba, P., Malijani, O., Blome, M. W., O'Driscoll, C. A., & 8 othersMentzer, S. M., Miller, C., Heo, S., Choi, J., Tembo, J., Mapemba, F., Simengwa, D. & Gomani-Chindebvu, E., May 5 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 19, eabf9776.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

The emergence and intensification of early hunter-gatherer niche construction

Thompson, J. C., Wright, D. K. & Ivory, S. J., Jan 1 2021, In: Evolutionary anthropology. 30, 1, p. 17-27 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Phytoliths, pollen, and microcharcoal from the Baringo Basin, Kenya reveal savanna dynamics during the Plio-Pleistocene transition

Yost, C. L., Ivory, S. J., Deino, A. L., Rabideaux, N. M., Kingston, J. D. & Cohen, A. S., May 15 2021, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 570, 109779.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review