Dr Elinor Breman
Qualifications
BA (Cantab), MSc (Oxon), D.Phil. (Oxon)
Role or position
College Lecturer in Geography
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Academic background
Elinor holds a BA in Natural Sciences (Cambridge), and an MSc in Forestry and Land use (Oxford), and a D.Phil in Geography and the Environment (Oxford). For her doctorate Elinor used palaeoecological techniques to study the long-term ecology (last 10,000 years) and vegetation dynamics of grasslands and savannas in South Africa, with a view to informing current conservation and management.
Undergraduate Teaching
Physical geography.
Research Interests
Long-term vegetation dynamics, changes in C3 and C4 vegetation through time, forest ecosystem stability through time and creating a proxy for measuring UV-B through time.
Publications include
Breman, E., Gillson, L. and Willis, K. (in press) How fire and climate shaped grass-dominated vegetation and forest mosaics in northern South Africa during past millennia. The Holocene.
Telfer, M.W., Thomas, Z.A. and Breman, E. (submitted) Sand ramps in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa: Evidence of periglacial aeolian activity during the last glacia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Hobbies
Adventure racing, cooking and being a mum.
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