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Anne-Marie Lézine

Anne-Marie Lézine

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Earth Science

D-Index
49
Citations
9480
World Ranking
3579
National Ranking
248

Overview

Anne-Marie Lézine is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Forestry.

Their research broadly encompasses topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geological formations and processes, African Botany and Ecology Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Genetic diversity and population structure.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Anne-Marie Lézine demonstrate their involvement in diverse areas of paleobotany and Quaternary science. These include:

  • "The recent colonization history of the most widespread Podocarpus tree species in Afromontane forests" (2020), Annals of Botany
  • "Mbi Crater (Cameroon) illustrates the relations between mountain and lowland forests over the past 15,000 years in western equatorial Africa" (2020), Quaternary International
  • "The Senegal River during the last millennium" (2020), Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • "The origin of the forest-grassland mosaic of central Cameroon: What we learn from the isotopic geochemistry of soil organic matter" (2020), The Holocene
  • "Relaunching the African Pollen Database: Abrupt change in climate and ecosystems" (2020), Past Global Change Magazine

Anne-Marie Lézine collaborates frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Gaston Achoundong, Sarah Ivory, Nicholas P. McKay, Thierry Desjardins, and Bruno Turcq.

Their work has been published in multiple venues, reflecting a broad engagement across related disciplines. Frequent publication outlets include Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Quaternary International, and Quaternary Science Reviews.

Best Publications

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

    S. Kröpelin;D. Verschuren;A.-M. Lézine;H. Eggermont

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • Phytoliths: indicators of grassland dynamics during the late Holocene in intertropical Africa

    Anne Alexandre;J.-D Meunier;Anne-Marie Lezine;A. Vincens

  • Brazilian montane rainforest expansion induced by Heinrich Stadial 1 event

    Jorge L. D. Pinaya;Francisco W. Cruz;Gregorio C. T. Ceccantini;Pedro L. P. Correa

  • Biome reconstruction from pollen and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at 0 and 6000 years

    Dominique Jolly;I. Colin Prentice;Raymonde Bonnefille;Aziz Ballouche

  • Sahara and Sahel vulnerability to climate changes, lessons from Holocene hydrological data

    Anne-Marie Lézine;Christelle Hély;Christophe Grenier;Pascale Braconnot

  • Late Quaternary palynology in marine sediments: A synthesis of the understanding of pollen distribution patterns in the NW African setting

    Henry Hooghiemstra;Anne-Marie Lézine;Suzanne A G Leroy;Lydie M Dupont

  • Late Quaternary vegetation and climate of the Sahel.

    Anne-Marie Lézine

  • Holocene Lakes from Ramlat as-Sab'atayn (Yemen) Illustrate the Impact of Monsoon Activity in Southern Arabia

    Anne-Marie Lézine;Jean-François Saliège;Christian Robert;Frédéric Wertz

  • Pollen-inferred Late-Glacial and Holocene climate in southern Balkans (Lake Maliq)

    Amandine Bordon;Amandine Bordon;Odile Peyron;Anne-Marie Lézine;Simon Brewer

  • Holocene changes in African vegetation: tradeoff between climate and water availability

    C. Hély;A.-M. Lézine;Apd contributors

  • Land–sea correlations for the last glaciation inferred from a pollen and dinocyst record from the portuguese margin

    Jean-Louis Turon;Anne-Marie Lézine;Michelle Denèfle

  • Pollen and hydrological evidence for the interpretation of past climates in tropical west Africa during the holocene

    Anne-Marie Lézine;Joel Casanova

  • Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years

    Sharon E. Nicholson;David J. Nash;David J. Nash;Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Stefan W. Grab

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation history of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

    M. Umer;H.-F. Lamb;Raymonde Bonnefille;A.-M. Lézine

  • Indian Summer Monsoon variations could have affected the early-Holocene woodland expansion in the Near East

    Morteza Djamali;Hossein Akhani;Valérie Andrieu-Ponel;Pascale Braconnot

  • Plant migration and plant communities at the time of the “green Sahara”

    Julie Watrin;Anne-Marie Lézine;Christelle Hély

  • African pollen database inventory of tree and shrub pollen types

    Annie Vincens;Anne-Marie Lézine;Guillaume Buchet;Dorothée Lewden

  • A 12,000-Year Pollen Record from Lake Maliq, Albania

    Michelle Denèfle;Anne-Marie Lézine;Eric Fouache;Jean-Jacques Dufaure

Frequent Co-Authors

Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
Rachid Cheddadi
Rachid Cheddadi University of Montpellier
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Lydie M Dupont
Lydie M Dupont University of Bremen
Raymonde Bonnefille
Raymonde Bonnefille Aix-Marseille University
Karin F. Helmens
Karin F. Helmens Stockholm University
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Judy R M Allen
Judy R M Allen Durham University

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