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José S. Carrión

José S. Carrión

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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
12353
World Ranking
2516
National Ranking
58

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

José S. Carrión is affiliated with the University of Murcia in Spain and has contributed extensively to research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences. Their work spans key subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Archeology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Archaeological and Geological Studies, Tree-ring climate responses, and Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna.

José S. Carrión has published numerous papers in several notable venues. Frequent publication outlets include Quaternary Science Reviews, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Quaternary Science Advances, and Land.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by José S. Carrión cover topics related to paleovegetation, climate history, and Neanderthal environments. These include:

  • Strong continentality and effective moisture drove unforeseen vegetation dynamics since the last interglacial at inland Mediterranean areas: The Villarquemado sequence in NE Iberia (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe (2021, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation (2023, Land)
  • Neanderthals in a highly diverse, mediterranean-Eurosiberian forest ecotone: The pleistocene pollen record of Teixoneres Cave, northeastern Spain (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Iberian Neanderthals in forests and savannahs (2021, Journal of Quaternary Science)

José S. Carrión has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably Juan Ochando, Gabriela Amorós, Manuel Munuera, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, and Santiago Fernández.

In addition to research articles, José S. Carrión has contributed to book publications with titles such as Iberian paleoflora and paleovegetation. Vol. II: Pleistocene (2024) and Iberian paleoflora and paleovegetation. Vol. I: Paleocene-Pliocene (2024), both published by Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena.

Best Publications

  • Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe

    Clive Finlayson;Clive Finlayson;Francisco Giles Pacheco;Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal;Darren A. Fa

  • Patterns and processes of Late Quaternary environmental change in a montane region of southwestern Europe

    José S. Carrión

  • Expected trends and surprises in the Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation history of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands.

    José S. Carrión;Santiago Fernández;Penélope González-Sampériz;Graciela Gil-Romera

  • A rock engraving made by Neanderthals in Gibraltar.

    Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal;Francesco d’Errico;Francesco d’Errico;Francisco Giles Pacheco;Ruth Blasco

  • Rapid ecological turnover and its impact on Neanderthal and other human populations.

    Clive Finlayson;Clive Finlayson;José S. Carrión

  • Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal Exploitation of Raptors and Corvids

    Clive Finlayson;Clive Finlayson;Kimberly Brown;Ruth Blasco;Jordi Rosell

  • Holocene vegetation dynamics, fire and grazing in the Sierra de Gádor, southern Spain

    José S. Carrión;Pedro Sánchez-Gómez;Juan F. Mota;Riker Yll

  • Holocene biomass burning and global dynamics of the carbon cycle.

    C Carcaillet;H Almquist;H Asnong;R H W Bradshaw

  • Fine-resolution Upper Weichselian and Holocene palynological record from Navarrés (Valencia, Spain) and a discussion about factors of Mediterranean forest succession

    J.S. Carrión;B. Van Geel

  • Holocene environmental change in a montane region of southern Europe with a long history of human settlement

    J.S. Carrión;N. Fuentes;P. González-Sampériz;L. Sánchez Quirante

  • Steppes, savannahs, forests and phytodiversity reservoirs during the Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula

    Penélope González-Sampériz;Suzanne A. G. Leroy;José S. Carrión;Santiago Fernández

  • Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)

    Boris Vannière;Mitchell Power;Neil Roberts;Willy Tinner

  • Glacial refugia of temperate, Mediterranean and Ibero‐North African flora in south‐eastern Spain: new evidence from cave pollen at two Neanderthal man sites

    Jose S. Carrion;Errikarta I. Yll;Michael J. Walker;Alfonso J. Legaz

  • Crossing forest thresholds: inertia and collapse in a Holocene sequence from south-central Spain

    José S. Carrión;Antonia Andrade;Keith D. Bennett;Cristina Navarro

  • A coastal reservoir of biodiversity for Upper Pleistocene human populations: palaeoecological investigations in Gorham's Cave (Gibraltar) in the context of the Iberian Peninsula

    J. S. Carrión;C. Finlayson;S. Fernández;G. Finlayson

  • The historical origins of aridity and vegetation degradation in southeastern Spain

    José S. Carrión;Santiago Fernández;G. Jiménez-Moreno;S. Fauquette

  • Abrupt vegetation changes in the Segura Mountains of southern Spain throughout the Holocene

    J. S. Carrión;M. Munuera;M. Munuera;M. Dupré;M. Dupré;A. Andrade;A. Andrade

  • The palaeoecoloical potential of pollen records in caves: the case of Mediterranean Spain

    J.S. Carrión;M. Munuera;C. Navarro;F. Burjachs

  • The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in southern Iberia

    Miguel Cortés Sánchez;Francisco J. Jiménez Espejo;Francisco J. Jiménez Espejo;María D. Simón Vallejo;Juan F. Gibaja Bao

  • Postglacial history of alpine vegetation, fire, and climate from Laguna de Río Seco, Sierra Nevada, southern Spain

    R.S. Anderson;G. Jiménez-Moreno;J.S. Carrión;C. Pérez-Martínez

Frequent Co-Authors

Clive Finlayson
Clive Finlayson Gibraltar Museum
Penélope González-Sampériz
Penélope González-Sampériz Spanish National Research Council
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno University of Granada
Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo
Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo Spanish National Research Council
R. Scott Anderson
R. Scott Anderson Northern Arizona University
Louis Scott
Louis Scott University of the Free State
Daniele Colombaroli
Daniele Colombaroli Royal Holloway University of London
Blas L. Valero-Garcés
Blas L. Valero-Garcés Spanish National Research Council
José Antonio López-Sáez
José Antonio López-Sáez Spanish National Research Council
Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern

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