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Odile Peyron is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and is active in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research extensively covers Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Ecology, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding past and present environmental conditions.

The scientist's work focuses primarily on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies, Marine and Environmental Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequently published venues include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Quaternary International
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Important recent papers authored or co-authored by Odile Peyron include:

  • "1.36 million years of Mediterranean forest refugium dynamics in response to glacial-interglacial cycle strength", 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "LegacyClimate 1.0: a dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the last 30 kyr and beyond", 2023, Earth system science data
  • "Impact of climate changes on vegetation and human societies during the Holocene in the South Caucasus (Vanevan, Armenia): A multiproxy approach including pollen, NPPs and brGDGTs", 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Climate reconstructions based on GDGT and pollen surface datasets from Mongolia and Baikal area: calibrations and applicability to extremely cold-dry environments over the Late Holocene", 2021, Climate of the past
  • "Late Holocene Mongolian climate and environment reconstructions from brGDGTs, NPPs and pollen transfer functions for Lake Ayrag: Paleoclimate implications for Arid Central Asia", 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews

The scientist collaborates frequently with several peers, including:

  • Sébastien Joannin
  • Lucas Dugerdil
  • Guillemette Ménot
  • Boris Vannière
  • Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout

Odile Peyron's research contributions emphasize multiproxy approaches to paleoclimate and environmental reconstructions, utilizing methods such as pollen analysis, brGDGTs (branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers), and other geochemical proxies. Their work often addresses the relationships between climate changes, vegetation dynamics, and human societies across various geographical regions including the Mediterranean, South Caucasus, Mongolia, and Central Asia.

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pollen‐based biome reconstruction for southern Europe and Africa 18,000 yr bp

    H. Elenga;O. Peyron;R. Bonnefille;D. Jolly

  • Holocene climate changes in the central Mediterranean as recorded by lake-level fluctuations at Lake Accesa (Tuscany, Italy)

    Michel Magny;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Ruth Drescher-Schneider;Boris Vannière

  • Rapid climatic variability in the west Mediterranean during the last 25 000 years from high resolution pollen data

    N. Combourieu Nebout;O. Peyron;I. Dormoy;S. Desprat

  • North-south palaeohydrological contrasts in the central Mediterranean during the Holocene: tentative synthesis and working hypotheses

    M. Magny;N. Combourieu-Nebout;J. L. de Beaulieu;V. Bout-Roumazeilles

  • Grass water stress estimated from phytoliths in West Africa

    Laurent Bremond;Anne Alexandre;Odile Peyron;Joël Guiot

  • Holocene seasonality changes in the central Mediterranean region reconstructed from the pollen sequences of Lake Accesa (Italy) and Tenaghi Philippon (Greece)

    Odile Peyron;Simon Goring;Isabelle Dormoy;Ulrich Kotthoff

  • High-resolution vegetation and climate change associated with Pliocene Australopithecus afarensis

    Raymonde Bonnefille;R. Potts;F. Chalié;D. Jolly

  • Climate dynamics in the borderlands of the Aegean Sea during formation of sapropel S1 deduced from a marine pollen record

    Ulrich Kotthoff;Jörg Pross;Ulrich C. Müller;Odile Peyron

  • Massive perturbation in terrestrial ecosystems of the Eastern Mediterranean region associated with the 8.2 kyr B.P. climatic event

    Joerg Pross;Ulrich Kotthoff;Ulrich Müller;Odile Peyron

  • The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

    Monica Bini;Giovanni Zanchetta;Aurel Perşoiu;Rosine Cartier

  • Mid-Holocene vegetation history of the central Mediterranean:

    Laura Sadori;Susanne Jahns;Odile Peyron

  • Was the climate of the Eemian stable? A quantitative climate reconstruction from seven European pollen records

    R Cheddadi;K Mamakowa;J Guiot;J.-L de Beaulieu

  • Abrupt climate changes of the last deglaciation detected in a Western Mediterranean forest record

    W. J. Fletcher;W. J. Fletcher;M. F. Sanchez Goñi;O. Peyron;I. Dormoy

  • Increasing vegetation and climate gradient in Western Europe over the Last Glacial Inception (122-110 ka): data-model comparison

    M.F. Sánchez Goñi;M.F. Loutre;M. Crucifix;O. Peyron

  • Terrestrial climate variability and seasonality changes in the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP deduced from marine pollen records

    I. Dormoy;I. Dormoy;O. Peyron;N. Combourieu Nebout;S. Goring

Frequent Co-Authors

Sébastien Joannin
Sébastien Joannin University of Montpellier
Michel Magny
Michel Magny Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout
Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout French National Museum of Natural History
Laura Sadori
Laura Sadori Sapienza University of Rome
Boris Vannière
Boris Vannière Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Adele Bertini
Adele Bertini University of Florence
Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu
Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu Aix-Marseille University
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Bernd Wagner
Bernd Wagner University of Cologne

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