Preface and Introduction  1. Dfg-Research Unit 510 on Ecological and Cultural Change in West and Central Africa', Yaounde Workshop Report, and Outlook for 2007-2009  2. OF Deserts and Forests: Insights into Central African Palaeoenvironments since the Last Glacial Maximum  3. Settling the Rain Forest: The Environment of Farming Communities in Southern Cameroon During the First Millennium BC  4. Recent Archaeological Investigations in the Tropical Rain Forest of South-West Cameroon  5. The Batie Palaeopodzol and its Palaeoclimatic And Environmental Significance  6. New Evidence on Palaeoenvironmental Conditions in SW Cameroon since the Late Pleistocene Derived from Alluvial Sediments of the Ntem River  7. The Evolution of the Holocene Palaeoenvironment of the Adamawa Region of Cameroon: Evidence from Sediments from Two Crater Lakes near Ngaoundere  8. Palaeoenvironmental Studies in The Ngotto Forest: Alluvial Sediments as Indicators of Recent and Holocene Landscape Evolution in the Central African Republic  9. Extension of Former Tree Cover in the Today's Sudano-Sahelian Milieu as Evidence for Late Holocene Environmental Changes in Northern Cameroon  10. THE Application of Organic Carbon and Carbonate Stratography to the Reconstruction of Lacustrine Palaeoenvironments from Lake Magadi, Kenya  11. Forest-Savanna Dynamics in Ivory Coast  12. The Impact of Land Use on Species Distribution Changes in North Benin  13. Potentials of Nigeriasat-1 for Sustainable Forest Monitoring in Africa: A Case Study From Nigeria  14. Landscape and Vegetation Patterns Studied by Remotely Sensed Data Analysis in Rain Forest Ecosystems Near Ebolowa (Southern Cameroon)  15. Remote Sensing Based Forest Assessment: Recent Dynamics (1973-2002) of Forest-Savanna Boundaries at Ngotto Forest, Central African Republic (CAR)  16. Late Neoproterozoic Palaeogeography of Central Africa: Relations with Holocene Geologic