Search Results - "Chevalier, Manuel"
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Modern drought conditions in western Sahel unprecedented in the past 1600 years
Published in Climate dynamics (01-02-2019)“…As climate model uncertainties remain very large for future rainfall in the Sahel, a multi-centennial perspective is required to assess the situation of…”
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Temperature Range Shifts for Three European Tree Species over the Last 10,000 Years
Published in Frontiers in plant science (25-10-2016)“…We quantified the degree to which the relationship between the geographic distribution of three major European tree species, and and January temperature (Tjan)…”
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Enabling possibilities to quantify past climate from fossil assemblages at a global scale
Published in Global and planetary change (01-04-2019)“…The field of quantitative palaeoclimatology has made significant progress in the past decades. However, this progress has been spatially heterogeneous and…”
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crestr: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets
Published in Climate of the past (19-04-2022)“…Statistical climate reconstruction techniques are fundamental tools to study past climate variability from fossil proxy data. In particular, the methods based…”
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Southeast African records reveal a coherent shift from high- to low-latitude forcing mechanisms along the east African margin across last glacial–interglacial transition
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-10-2015)“…Late Quaternary climate variability in the southern African subtropics is still only poorly resolved, with significant complexity and apparent contradictions…”
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The dynamic relationship between temperate and tropical circulation systems across South Africa since the last glacial maximum
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-10-2017)“…A fundamental and long-standing question of southern African palaeoclimatology is the way tropical and temperate climate system dynamics have influenced…”
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Determining the drivers of long-term aridity variability: a southern African case study
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-02-2016)“…ABSTRACT This paper highlights the importance of differentiating between precipitation amount and moisture availability (‘humidity’/‘aridity’) when considering…”
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Qualitative assessment of PMIP3 rainfall simulations across the eastern African monsoon domains during the mid-Holocene and the Last Glacial Maximum
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-01-2017)“…In this paper we compare a compilation of multiproxy records spanning the eastern African margin with general circulation model simulations of seasonal…”
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Multiple forcing on Late Miocene East Asian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Variability in NE Tibetan Plateau
Published in Catena (Giessen) (01-02-2023)“…•A high resolution, quantitative late Miocene EASM rainfall record was obtained.•The EASM declined from ∼ 10.8 Ma to 7.6 Ma and strengthened from ∼ 7.6 Ma to…”
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Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies
Published in Earth-science reviews (01-11-2020)“…Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes,…”
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50,000 years of vegetation and climate change in the southern Namib Desert, Pella, South Africa
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (01-06-2016)“…This paper presents the first continuous pollen record from the southern Namib Desert spanning the last 50,000 years. Obtained from rock hyrax middens found…”
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An uncertainty-focused database approach to extract spatiotemporal trends from qualitative and discontinuous lake-status histories
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-04-2021)“…Changes in lake status are often interpreted as palaeoclimate indicators due to their dependence on precipitation and evaporation. The Global Lake Status…”
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The resilience of Amazon tree cover to past and present drying
Published in Global and planetary change (01-07-2021)“…The Amazon forest is increasingly vulnerable to dieback and encroachment of grasslands and agricultural fields. Threats to these forested ecosystems include…”
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Fire drives major Holocene vegetation shifts between subtropical and Mediterranean‐type ecosystems: a case study from a biodiversity hotspot in South Africa
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (27-08-2024)“…Fire plays a pivotal role in driving ecological shifts between Mediterranean‐type vegetation and subtropical ecosystems in South Africa . This study…”
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Late Pleistocene-Holocene vegetation and climate change in the Middle Kalahari, Lake Ngami, Botswana
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-09-2017)“…Pollen, spores, and microscopic charcoal from a sediment core from Lake Ngami, in the Middle Kalahari, reflect paleovegetation and paleoclimatic conditions…”
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A modern analogue matching approach to characterize fire temperatures and plant species from charcoal
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (15-09-2021)“…Charcoal identification and the quantification of its abundance in sedimentary archives is commonly used to reconstruct fire frequency and the amounts of…”
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Miocene East Asia summer monsoon precipitation variability and its possible driving forces
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (01-11-2021)“…The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) precipitation is vital to hydrology, ecology and societal activities in the densely populated region of East Asia…”
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A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records
Published in Scientific data (14-04-2020)“…A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a…”
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Extreme hydroclimate response gradients within the western Cape Floristic region of South Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum
Published in Quaternary science reviews (01-09-2019)“…The Cape Floristic Region (CFR) is one of the world's major biodiversity hotspots, and much work has gone into identifying the drivers of this diversity…”
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EUPollMap: the European atlas of contemporary pollen distribution maps derived from an integrated Kriging interpolation approach
Published in Earth system science data (31-01-2024)“…Modern and fossil pollen data are widely used in paleoenvironmental research to characterize past environmental changes in a given location. However, their…”
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