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Bruno Turcq is affiliated with the Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work also in Environmental Science.

The main topics of Bruno Turcq's research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Their work spans key subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, History, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Bruno Turcq has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers, including the following significant publications:

  • High-resolution marine data and transient simulations support orbital forcing of ENSO amplitude since the mid-Holocene, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Dust arriving in the Amazon basin over the past 7,500 years came from diverse sources, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • The origin of the forest-grassland mosaic of central Cameroon: What we learn from the isotopic geochemistry of soil organic matter, 2020, The Holocene
  • Late-Holocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from a lake in the Amazon Rainforest-Tropical Savanna (Cerrado) boundary in Brazil using a multi-proxy approach, 2021, The Holocene
  • Climate and hydrologic controls on late Holocene sediment supply to an Amazon floodplain lake, 2020, Journal of Paleolimnology

Frequent collaborators of Bruno Turcq include:

  • Luciane Silva Moreira
  • Renato Campello Cordeiro
  • Patricia Moreira-Turcq
  • Abdelfettah Sifeddine
  • Keila Aniceto

The scientist has published in journals and venues such as The Holocene, SSRN Electronic Journal, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Revista Geonorte, and Quaternary Science Reviews.

In addition to journal articles, Bruno Turcq has contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored "Livre Blanc - Paléoclimats et Paléoenvironnements," published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The last 50,000 years in the Neotropics (Southern Brazil): evolution of vegetation and climate

    Marie-Pierre Ledru;Pedro Ivo Soares Braga;François Soubiès;Marc Fournier

  • Mise en évidence de quatre phases d'ouverture de la forêt dense dans le Sud-Est de l'Amazonie au cours des 60 000 dernières années : première comparaison avec d'autres régions tropicales

    M.L. Absy;A. Cleef;Marc Fournier;Louis Martin

  • Evaluating levoglucosan as an indicator of biomass burning in Carajás, amazônia: a comparison to the charcoal record

    Vladimir O. Elias;Bernd R.T. Simoneit;Renato C. Cordeiro;Bruno Turcq

  • Southern Oscillation Signal in South American Palaeoclimatic Data of the Last 7000 Years

    Louis Martin;Marc Fournier;Philippe Mourguiart;Abdelfatah Sifeddine

  • Variations of the Amazonian rainforest environment: a sedimentological record covering 30,000 years

    Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Louis Martin;Bruno Turcq;Cecilia Volkmer-Ribeiro

  • Tropical forest changes during the late quaternary in African and South American lowlands

    Michel Servant;Jean Maley;Bruno Turcq;Maria-Lucia Absy

  • Astronomical Forcing of Contrasting Rainfall Changes in Tropical South America between 12,400 and 8800 cal yr B.P.

    Louis Martin;Jacques Bertaux;Thierry Corrège;Marie Pierre Ledru

  • Late Quaternary vegetational and climatic changes in cerrado and palm swamp from Central Brazil

    M.L. Salgado-Labouriau;V. Casseti;K.R. Ferraz-Vicentini;L. Martin

  • Carbon sedimentation at Lago Grande de Curuai, a floodplain lake in the low Amazon region: insights into sedimentation rates

    P. Moreira-Turcq;J.M. Jouanneau;B. Turcq;P. Seyler

  • Tropical South Atlantic influence on Northeastern Brazil precipitation and ITCZ displacement during the past 2300 years

    Giselle Utida;Francisco W. Cruz;Johan Etourneau;Ioanna Bouloubassi

  • A mid-Holocene climate reconstruction for eastern South America

    Luciane Prado;Illaina Wainer;Christiano Chiessi;Marie-Pierre Ledru

  • Late-Glacial Cooling in Amazonia Inferred from Pollen at Lagoa do Caçó, Northern Brazil

    Marie-Pierre Ledru;Renato Campello Cordeiro;José Maria Landim Dominguez;Louis Martin

  • Amazonia rainforest fires : a lacustrine record of 7000 years

    Bruno Turcq;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Louis Martin;M.L. Absy

  • A 21 000 cal years paleoclimatic record from Caçó Lake, northern Brazil: evidence from sedimentary and pollen analyses

    Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Ana Luiza Spadano Albuquerque;Marie-Pierre Ledru;Marie-Pierre Ledru;Bruno Turcq

  • Accumulation of organic carbon in five Brazilian lakes during the Holocene

    B Turcq;A.L.S Albuquerque;R.C Cordeiro;A Sifeddine;A Sifeddine

  • Pentacyclic triterpene methyl ethers in recent lacustrine sediments (Lagoa do Caco, Brazil)

    Jérémy Jacob;Jean-Robert Disnar;Mohammed Boussafir;Ana Luiza Spadano Albuquerque

  • Contrasted distributions of triterpene derivatives in the sediments of Lake Caçó reflect paleoenvironmental changes during the last 20,000 yrs in NE Brazil

    Jérémy Jacob;Jean-Robert Disnar;Mohammed Boussafir;Ana Luiza Spadano Albuquerque

  • Holocene fires in East Amazonia (Carajás), new evidences, chronology and relation with paleoclimate

    Renato Campello Cordeiro;Bruno Turcq;K. Suguio;A. Oliveira da Silva

  • Tropical climates in the game of two hemispheres revealed by abrupt climatic change

    Marie-Pierre Ledru;Philippe Mourguiart;Gregorio Ceccantini;Bruno Turcq

  • Paleohydrological changes during the last deglaciation in Northern Brazil

    Jérémy Jacob;Jérémy Jacob;Yongsong Huang;Jean-Robert Disnar;Abdelfettah Sifeddine

  • Forest fire indicators and mercury deposition in an intense land use change region in the Brazilian Amazon (Alta Floresta, MT).

    R.C Cordeiro;B Turcq;M.G Ribeiro;L.D Lacerda

Frequent Co-Authors

Abdelfettah Sifeddine
Abdelfettah Sifeddine Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Kenitiro Suguio
Kenitiro Suguio Universidade de São Paulo
Louis Martin
Louis Martin Federal University of Bahia
Jean-Robert Disnar
Jean-Robert Disnar Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marc Fournier
Marc Fournier Sorbonne University
Marie-Pierre Ledru
Marie-Pierre Ledru Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Claudio Riccomini
Claudio Riccomini Universidade de São Paulo
Luiz Drude de Lacerda
Luiz Drude de Lacerda Universidade Federal do Ceará
Philip A. Meyers
Philip A. Meyers University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Thierry Corrège
Thierry Corrège University of Bordeaux

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