INQUA Fellowship: Alfred Houngnon (Part 2 - pollen traps)

Alfred Houngnon (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin) was awarded an International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Fellowship in the 2024 round. The fellowship allows Alfred to develop his research into past environmental change in the Dahomey Gap (western Africa), and allows him to join up with researchers at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). The project is developed from connections made during the Mapping Ancient Africa networking project.
In this second video Alfred introduces his collaborators and explains how he is setting up pollen traps in different vegetation types in the around the Ewe-Adakplame forest (Benin). The improved understanding of how vegetation in the Dahomey Gap is represented by the pollen it produces will be used to generate more robust interpretations of pollen assemblages extracted from ancient sediments in the region. From this a more accurate picture of the vegetation history of the Dahomey Gap will be revealed.
To find out more about:
- INQUA Fellowships: inqua.org/fund...
- Mapping Ancient Africa project: ecologyofthepa...