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Marie-Pierre Ledru is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on several key subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their scholarly work covers topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geological formations and processes, Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Diatoms and Algae Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marie-Pierre Ledru include Francisca Soares Araújo, Denise C. Bicudo, Gisele C. Marquardt, Charly Favier, and Carlos E. Wetzel.

Marie-Pierre Ledru has contributed multiple papers published across various scientific venues. Selected recent publications include:

  • Assessing changes in global fire regimes, 2024, Fire Ecology
  • Shut down of the South American summer monsoon during the penultimate glacial, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Vegetation and fire variability in the central Cerrados (Brazil) during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition was influenced by oscillations in the SASM boundary belt, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • When archives are missing, deciphering the effects of public policies and climate variability on the Brazilian semi-arid region using sediment core studies, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Chronostratigraphy of a 1.5±0.1 Ma composite sedimentary record from Colônia basin (SE Brazil): Bayesian modeling based on paleomagnetic, authigenic 10Be/9Be, radiocarbon and luminescence dating, 2020, Quaternary Geochronology

Their research is regularly published in venues such as Quaternary Science Reviews, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, The Holocene, Palynology, and the Journal of Quaternary Science.

Best Publications

  • Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic Changes in Central Brazil

    Marie-Pierre Ledru

  • 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

  • Paleo-environmental change in Amazonian and African rainforest during the LGM

    D. Anhuf;D. Anhuf;M.-P. Ledru;H. Behling;F.W. Da Cruz

  • Vegetation dynamics in southern and central Brazil during the last 10,000 yr B.P.

    Marie-Pierre Ledru;Maria Lea Salgado-Labouriau;Maria Luisa Lorscheitter

  • Distribution and ecology of parent taxa of pollen lodged within the Latin American Pollen Database

    Robert Marchant;Lucia Almeida;Hermann Behling;Juan Carlos Berrio

  • Absence of Last Glacial Maximum Records in Lowland Tropical Forests

    Marie-Pierre Ledru;Jacques Bertaux;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Kenitiro Suguio

  • 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

  • Related changes in biodiversity, insolation and climate in the Atlantic rainforest since the last interglacial

    Marie-Pierre Ledru;Philippe Mourguiart;Claudio Riccomini

  • Biome stability in South America over the last 30 kyr: Inferences from long-term vegetation dynamics and habitat modelling

    Gabriel C. Costa;Arndt Hampe;Marie‐Pierre Ledru;Pablo A. Martinez

  • Correlations among Charcoal Records of Fires from the Past 16,000 Years in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Central and South America

    Simon G. Haberle;Marie-Pierre Ledru

  • Millenial-scale climatic and vegetation changes in a northern Cerrado (Northeast, Brazil) since the Last Glacial Maximum

    M P Ledru;Gregório Cardoso Tápias Ceccantini;Susy Eli Marques Gouveia;J A López-Sáez

  • Climate variability and human impact in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives from pollen records

    Suzette Flantua;H. Hooghiemstra;Mathias Vuille;H. Behling

  • 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

  • Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years ago

    R. Marchant;A. Cleef;S. P. Harrison;H. Hooghiemstra

  • A continuous record of vegetation and climate change over the past 50,000years in the Fujian Province of eastern subtropical China

    Yuanfu Yue;Yuanfu Yue;Zhuo Zheng;Kangyou Huang;Manuel Chevalier

  • Irregular tropical glacier retreat over the Holocene epoch driven by progressive warming

    Vincent Jomelli;Myriam Khodri;Vincent Favier;Daniel Brunstein

  • 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

  • Last Glacial Maximum in an Andean cloud forest environment (Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia)

    Philippe Mourguiart;Marie-Pierre Ledru

  • Regional assessment of the impact of climatic change on the distribution of a tropical conifer in the lowlands of South America

    Marie-Pierre Ledru;Maria Luisa Ferraz Salatino;Gregorio Ceccantini;Antonio Salatino

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Henry Hooghiemstra
Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Rachid Cheddadi
Rachid Cheddadi University of Montpellier
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota
Karin F. Helmens
Karin F. Helmens Stockholm University
Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout
Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout French National Museum of Natural History
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Debra A. Willard
Debra A. Willard United States Geological Survey

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