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David S.G. Thomas is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable presence in Social Sciences as well. The scientist's work spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, Archeology, and Paleontology.

Their main topics of study revolve around intricate geological and paleoclimatological phenomena. These include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration

David S.G. Thomas has published extensively, contributing to a variety of journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues for their work include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Opflow
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • American Water Works Association
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Some of the recent significant papers featuring their research are:

  • Divergent processes and trends of desertification in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, 2020, Land Degradation and Development
  • Thriving in the Thirstland: New Stone Age sites from the Middle Kalahari, Botswana, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The provenance of Danubian loess, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Seasonal and intra-seasonal rainfall and drought characteristics as indicators of climate change and variability in Southern Africa: a focus on Kabwe and Livingstone in Zambia, 2020, Theoretical and Applied Climatology
  • A tale of two signals: Global and local influences on the Late Pleistocene loess sequences in Bulgarian Lower Danube, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Sallie L. Burrough
  • Julie A. Durcan
  • Hunter Adams
  • Sheila Coulson
  • Sigrid Staurset

David S.G. Thomas's work often explores the interactions between geological formations and past human activities, particularly those related to Pleistocene-era hominins and environmental changes. Their publications indicate a multidisciplinary approach that integrates atmospheric sciences, archaeological methods, and earth surface process studies to examine both historical and contemporary environmental issues.

Best Publications

  • World atlas of desertification.

    Nick Middleton;David S.G. Thomas

  • The effect of environmental change on human migration

    Richard Black;W Neil Adger;Nigel Arnell;Stefan Dercon

  • Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies

    David S.G. Thomas;Chasca Twyman

  • Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Farmer Responses to Intra-seasonal Precipitation Trends in South Africa

    David S. G. Thomas;Chasca Twyman;Henny Osbahr;Bruce Hewitson

  • Desertification : Exploding the Myth

    David S. G. Thomas;Nicholas J. Middleton

  • The Kalahari environment

    David S. G. Thomas;Paul A. Shaw

  • Migration, immobility and displacement outcomes following extreme events

    Richard Black;Nigel W. Arnell;W. Neil Adger;David Thomas

  • Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: Scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique

    Henny Osbahr;Chasca Twyman;W. Neil Adger;David S.G. Thomas

  • Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming

    David S. G. Thomas;Melanie Knight;Giles F. S. Wiggs

  • Climate change adaptation: Linking indigenous knowledge with western science for effective adaptation

    Cuthbert Casey Makondo;David S.G. Thomas

  • Arid zone geomorphology: process, form and change in drylands.

    David S. G. Thomas

  • Arid zone geomorphology.

    David S. G. Thomas

  • Evaluating Successful Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa

    Henny Osbahr;Chasca Twyman;W. Neil Adger;David S. G. Thomas

  • Multiple episodes of aridity in southern Africa since the last interglacial period

    Stephen Stokes;David S. G. Thomas;Richard Washington

  • Dune mobility and vegetation cover in the Southwest Kalahari desert

    Giles F. S. Wiggs;David S. G. Thomas;Joanna E. Bullard;Ian Livingstone

  • The Geomorphology of The Anthropocene: Emergence, Status and Implications

    Antony G. Brown;Stephen Tooth;Joanna E. Bullard;David S. G. Thomas

  • Good or bad rangeland? Hybrid knowledge, science, and local understandings of vegetation dynamics in the Kalahari

    D. S. G. Thomas;C. Twyman

  • Science and the desertification debate

    David S.G. Thomas

  • Migration and global environmental change

    Richard Black;W Neil Adger;Nigel Arnell;Stefan Dercon

  • Spreading deserts or spatially confined environmental impacts? land degradation and cattle ranching in the kalahari desert of botswana

    J. S. Perkins;D. S. G. Thomas

  • Late Quaternary environmental change in central southern Africa: new data, synthesis, issues and prospects

    David S.G. Thomas;Paul A. Shaw

  • The Kalahari Environment

    H. J. Deacon;D. S. G. Thomas;P. A. Shaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Giles F.S. Wiggs
Giles F.S. Wiggs University of Oxford
Richard M. Bailey
Richard M. Bailey University of Oxford
Richard Washington
Richard Washington University of Oxford
Paul A. Shaw
Paul A. Shaw University of the West Indies
Robert G. Bryant
Robert G. Bryant University of Sheffield
Mark D. Bateman
Mark D. Bateman University of Sheffield
Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone University of Northampton
Joanna E. Bullard
Joanna E. Bullard Loughborough University
W. Neil Adger
W. Neil Adger University of Exeter
David J. Nash
David J. Nash University of Brighton

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