A humid early Holocene in Yemen interpreted from palaeoecology and taxonomy of freshwater ostracods

Mohammed, Munef; Frenzel, Peter; Keyser, Dietmar; Hussain, Fadhl; Abood, Abdulkareem; Sha'af, Abdulmajed; Alzara'e, Sadham; Alammari, Sakher

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A humid early Holocene in Yemen interpreted from palaeoecology and taxonomy of freshwater ostracods

Munef Mohammed, Peter Frenzel, Dietmar Keyser, Fadhl Hussain, Abdulkareem Abood, Abdulmajed Sha'af, Sadham Alzara'e, and Sakher Alammari

Munef Mohammed

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen

Peter Frenzel

Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena, Germany

Dietmar Keyser

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

keyser@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de

Zoologisches Institut, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany

Fadhl Hussain

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen

Abdulkareem Abood

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen

Abdulmajed Sha'af

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen

Sadham Alzara'e

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen

Sakher Alammari

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Sanaa University, Sanaa, Yemen

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