Mediterranean Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology
A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2019)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: palynology; palaeoecology; palaeoclimatology; radiocarbon dating; mediterranean region
2. École Pratique des Hautes Études, EPHE PSL University, 75014 Paris, France
Interests: palynology; palaeoclimatology; palaeoecology; past climate-human interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Quaternary, entitled “Mediterranean palaeoclimatology and palaeoecology”, aims to present how the Mediterranean climate, its seasonality, variability, and teleconnections, evolved under the different boundary conditions (insolation, ice volume and greenhouse gas concentration) of the last 2.6 million years. This Special Issue seeks to showcase the diversity of studies dealing with both long-term and rapid climate changes in the Mediterranean region, and exploring the response of terrestrial and marine species, habitats and ecosystems (including vegetation dynamics and fire regimes).
Contributions based on novel and emerging methodological approaches including numerical modelling, presenting regional climate projections and implications for environmental resources, or exploring climate-environment-human interactions are welcome. We hope that this Special Issue will be a significant step towards unravelling regional environmental responses and their impacts on past populations, and in fine to a fundamental knowledge of the past, present and future Mediterranean climate and ecosystems.
Dr. William J. Fletcher
Prof. Dr. María Fernanda Sánchez Goñi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Climate change
- Mediterranean terrestrial and marine ecosystems
- Rapid climate change impacts
- Mediterranean climate projections
- Mediterranean climate teleconnections
- Climate impact on past populations
- Climate-environment-human interactions
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