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58
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16581
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2518
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107

Overview

Rachid Cheddadi is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and conducts research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, and Anthropology.

Their scholarly work addresses several main topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Tree-ring climate responses, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Frequent frequent collaborators in their research include Zhuo Zheng, Kangyou Huang, David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner, and Matthieu Carré.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications in leading scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include Quaternary Science Reviews, Forests, Past Global Change Magazine, Anthropocene, and the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Among the recent research papers authored or co-authored by Rachid Cheddadi are:

  • Early Holocene greening of the Sahara requires Mediterranean winter rainfall, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quantification of Asian monsoon variability from 68 ka BP through pollen-based climate reconstruction, 2023, Science Bulletin
  • Holocene warming and evergreen/deciduous forest replacement across eastern China, 2023, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • High-resolution marine data and transient simulations support orbital forcing of ENSO amplitude since the mid-Holocene, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Climate Change and Social Unrest: A 6,000-Year Chronicle From the Eastern Mediterranean, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Glacial Refugia: Hotspots But Not Melting Pots of Genetic Diversity

    Rémy J. Petit;Itziar Aguinagalde;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Christiane Bittkau

  • 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

  • Identification of refugia and post-glacial colonisation routes of European white oaks based on chloroplast DNA and fossil pollen evidence

    Rémy J Petit;Simon Brewer;Sándor Bordács;Kornel Burg

  • Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

    Eske Willerslev;John Davison;Mari Moora;Martin Zobel

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

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

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • 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

  • Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial in vegetation records from Europe

    William J. Fletcher;Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Judy R.M. Allen;Rachid Cheddadi

  • The spread of deciduous Quercus throughout Europe since the last glacial period

    S. Brewer;R. Cheddadi;J.L. de Beaulieu;M. Reille

  • Brazilian montane rainforest expansion induced by Heinrich Stadial 1 event

    Jorge L. D. Pinaya;Francisco W. Cruz;Gregorio C. T. Ceccantini;Pedro L. P. Correa

  • 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

  • Imprints of glacial refugia in the modern genetic diversity of Pinus sylvestris

    Rachid Cheddadi;Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin;Thomas Litt;Louis François

  • Present-day and mid-Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia

    P. E. Tarasov;P. E. Tarasov;T. Webb Iii;A. A. Andreev;N. B. Afanas'eva

  • The climate of Europe 6000 years ago

    R Cheddadi;G Yu;Joel Guiot;Sp Harrison

  • Genetic consequences of glacial survival and postglacial colonization in Norway spruce: combined analysis of mitochondrial DNA and fossil pollen.

    Mari Mette Tollefsrud;Roy Kissling;Felix Gugerli;Øystein Johnsen

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

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

  • Climate changes and tree phylogeography in the Mediterranean

    Rémy J. Petit;Arndt Hampe;Rachid Cheddadi

  • Quaternary refugia and persistence of biodiversity

    Pierre Taberlet;Rachid Cheddadi

  • The climate in Western Europe during the last Glacial/Interglacial cycle derived from pollen and insect remains

    J. Guiot;J.L. de Beaulieu;R. Cheddadi;F. David

  • Holocene climatic change in Morocco: a quantitative reconstruction from pollen data

    R. Cheddadi;H. F. Lamb;J. Guiot;S. van der Kaars

Frequent Co-Authors

Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Louis François
Louis François University of Liège
Anne-Marie Lézine
Anne-Marie Lézine Sorbonne University
Lydie M Dupont
Lydie M Dupont University of Bremen
Marie-Pierre Ledru
Marie-Pierre Ledru Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
Brian Huntley
Brian Huntley Durham University
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
William J. Fletcher
William J. Fletcher University of Manchester
Judy R M Allen
Judy R M Allen Durham University

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