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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
87
Citations
29325
World Ranking
675
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Joël Guiot is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and focuses primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their academic work spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Plant Ecology and Soil Science
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Joël Guiot has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research include Wolfgang Crämer, Katarzyna Marini, Brian Azzopardi, Sémia Cherif, and Enrique Doblas-Miranda.

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on climate and environmental changes, palaeoclimatology, and analytical methods related to these topics. Selected recent papers are:

  • "Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin - Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report," 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin - Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report," 2020, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "Water deprivation as military strategy in the Middle East, 3.700 years ago," 2022, Méditerranée

Best Publications

  • Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

    Wolfgang Cramer;Joël Guiot;Marianela Fader;Joaquim Garrabou;Joaquim Garrabou

  • The temperature of Europe during the Holocene reconstructed from pollen data

    B.A.S. Davis;S. Brewer;A.C. Stevenson;J. Guiot

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Taylor;T. Guillén Bolaños

  • Reconstructing biomes from palaeoecological data: a general method and its application to European pollen data at 0 and 6 ka

    I. Colin Prentice;J. Guiot;B. Huntley;D. Jolly

  • Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: A global synthesis

    Patrick J Bartlein;S P Harrison;S P Harrison;S Brewer;Simon Connor

  • Methodology of the last climatic cycle reconstruction in France from pollen data

    Joel Guiot

  • A 140,000-year continental climate reconstruction from two European pollen records

    J. Guiot;A. Pons;J. L. de Beaulieu;M. Reille

  • Climatic Reconstruction in Europe for 18,000 YR B.P. from Pollen Data

    Odile Peyron;Joël Guiot;Rachid Cheddadi;Pavel Tarasov;Pavel Tarasov

  • Synchroneity between marine and terrestrial responses to millennial scale climatic variability during the last glacial period in the Mediterranean region

    M. F. Sanchez Goni;I. Cacho;J.-L. Turon;J. Guiot

  • Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

    S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Contrasting patterns of hydrological changes in Europe in response to Holocene climate cooling phases.

    Michel Magny;Carole Bégeot;Joël Guiot;Odile Peyron

  • Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as tracers of sea‐surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas: the new ‘n = 677’ data base and its application for quantitative palaeoceanographic reconstruction

    Anne de Vernal;Maryse Henry;Jens Matthiessen;Peta J. Mudie

  • Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data‐based synthesis for the mid‐Holocene and last glacial maximum

    G. Yu;G. Yu;G. Yu;X. Chen;X. Chen;J. Ni;J. Ni;R. Cheddadi

  • Climate variations in Europe over the past 140 kyr deduced from rock magnetism

    Nicolas Thouveny;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Eugène Bonifay;Ken M. Creer

  • Last glacial maximum biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia

    P. E. Tarasov;P. E. Tarasov;V. S. Volkova;T. Webb;J. Guiot

  • Tropical climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry

    I. Farrera;S. P. Harrison;I. C. Prentice;G. Ramstein

  • 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

  • Temperature and rainfall estimates for the past 40,000 years in equatorial Africa

    R Bonnefille;Jc Roeland;Joel Guiot

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachid Cheddadi
Rachid Cheddadi University of Montpellier
Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer University of Utah
Odile Peyron
Odile Peyron University of Montpellier
David Kaniewski
David Kaniewski Paul Sabatier University
Dominique Jolly
Dominique Jolly University of Montpellier
Changhui Peng
Changhui Peng University of Quebec at Montreal
Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Maurice Reille
Maurice Reille Aix-Marseille University
Denis-Didier Rousseau
Denis-Didier Rousseau University of Montpellier

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