publications

List of publications sorted in reversed chronological order. Contact me at chevalier.manuel@gmail.com if you need access to some of the publications.

submitted

  1. Pollen-based Early Pleistocene East Asian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Variability from the Western Chinese Loess Plateau
    Hui, Zhengchuang, Wei, Xiao, Xue, Zhendong, Lu, Xuw,  Chevalier, Manuel, Zhang, Jun, Peng, Tingjiang, and Chen, Peng
    In review for Climate Dynamics, submitted. DOI: .
  2. Fire drives major Holocene vegetation shifts between subtropical and Mediterranean-type ecosystems: a case study from a biodiversity hotspot in South Africa
    Quick, Lynne, Chase, Brian,  Chevalier, Manuel, Grobler, Barend, and Manzano, Saúl
    In review for Ecography, submitted. DOI: .
  3. Refining paleothermometers: discrepancies in lacustrine bacterial lipid reconstructions explained by microbial ecology
    Liang, Jie,  Chevalier, Manuel, Liu, Keshao, Perfumo, Amedeaa, Wang, Mingda, Xie, Haichao, Hou, Juzhi, and Herzschuh, Ulrike
    In review for Communications Earth & Environments, submitted. DOI: .

2024

  1. Open-Access
    EUPollMap: the European atlas of contemporary pollen distribution maps derived from an integrated Kriging interpolation approach
    Oriani, Fabio, Mariethoz, Grégoire, and Chevalier, Manuel
    Earth System Science Data, 2024. DOI: 10.5194/essd-16-731-2024

2023

  1. Open-Access
    Refining data–data and data–model vegetation comparisons using the Earth mover’s distance (EMD)
    Chevalier, Manuel, Dallmeyer, Anne, Weitzel, Nils, Li, Chenzhi, Baudouin, Jean-Philippe, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Cao, Xianyong, and Hense, Andreas
    Climate of the Past, 2023. DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-1043-2023
  2. Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales
    Laepple, Thomas, Ziegler, Elisa, Weitzel, Nils, Hebert, Raphel, Ellerhoff, Beatrice, Schoch, Patricia, Martrat, Belen, Bothe, Oliver, Morena-Chamarro, Eduardo,  Chevalier, Manuel, Herbert, Annika, and Rehfeld, Kira
    Nature Geoscience, Nov 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01299-9
  3. Multiple forcing on Late Miocene East Asian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Variability in NE Tibetan Plateau
    Hui, Zhengchuang, Liu, Jia,  Chevalier, Manuel, Wei, Xiao, Chen, Peng, Zhan, Jun, Peng, Tingjiang, and Zhou, Xuewen
    CATENA, Feb 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106752
  4. Middle Miocene evolution of East Asian summer monsoon precipitation in the northeast part of the Tibetan Plateau based on a quantitative analysis of palynological records
    Hui, Zhengchuang, Wei, Xiao, Xue, Zhendong, Zhao, Xuerong,  Chevalier, Manuel, Lu, Xue, Zhang, Jun, Peng, Tingjiang, Chen, Yingyong, and Chen, Peng
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Feb 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111808
  5. Open-Access
    Regional pollen-based Holocene temperature and precipitation patterns depart from the Northern Hemisphere mean trends
    Herzschuh, Ulrike, Böhmer, Thomas,  Chevalier, Manuel, Dallmeyer, Anne, Li, Chenzhi, Cao, Xianyong, Hébert, Raphaël, Peyron, Odile, Nazarova, Larisa, Novenko, Elena Y., Park, Jungjae, Rudaya, Natalia A., Schlütz, Frank, Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila S., Tarasov, Pavel E., Wang, Yongbo, Wen, Ruilin, Xu, Qinghai, and Zheng, Zhuo
    Climate of the Past, 2023. DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-1481-2023
  6. Open-Access
    LegacyClimate 1.0: A dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the late Quaternary
    Herzschuh, Ulrike, Böhmer, Thomas, Li, Chenzhi,  Chevalier, Manuel, Hébert, Raphaël, Dallmeyer, Anne, Cao, Xianyong, Bigelow, Nancy H, Nazarova, Larisa, Novenko, Elena Y, Park, Jungjae, Peyron, Odile, Rudaya, Natalia A, Schlütz, Frank, Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila S, Tarasov, Pavel E, Wang, Yongbo, Wen, Ruilin, Xu, Qinghai, and Zheng, Zhuo
    Earth System Science Data, 2023. DOI: 10.5194/essd-2022-38

2022

  1. Open-Access
    crestr: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets
    Chevalier, Manuel
    Climate of the Past, Apr 2022. DOI: 10.5194/cp-18-821-2022
  2. A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa
    Quick, Lynne J., Chase, Brian M., Carr, Andrew S.,  Chevalier, Manuel, Grobler, B. Adriaan, and Meadows, Michael E.
    Quaternary Research, Jan 2022. DOI: 10.1017/qua.2021.31

2021

  1. An uncertainty-focused database approach to extract spatiotemporal trends from qualitative and discontinuous lake-status histories
    De Cort, Gijs,  Chevalier, Manuel, Burrough, Sallie L., Chen, Christine Y., and Harrison, Sandy P.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, Apr 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106870
  2. Open-Access
    Temperature change in subtropical southeastern Africa during the past 790,000 yr
    Chevalier, Manuel, Chase, Brian M., Quick, Lynne J., Dupont, Lydie M., and Johnson, Thomas C.
    Geology, Jan 2021. DOI: 10.1130/G47841.1
  3. A modern analogue matching approach to characterize fire temperatures and plant species from charcoal
    Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Gosling, William D., Kirschner, Judith,  Chevalier, Manuel, Cornelissen, Henk L., Heinecke, Thilo, and McMichael, Crystal N.H.
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Sep 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110580
  4. The resilience of Amazon tree cover to past and present drying
    Kukla, Tyler, Ahlström, Anders, Maezumi, S. Yoshi,  Chevalier, Manuel, Lu, Zhengyao, Winnick, Matthew J., and Chamberlain, C. Page
    Global and Planetary Change, Jul 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103520
  5. Miocene East Asia summer monsoon precipitation variability and its possible driving forces
    Hui, Zhengchuang, Zhou, Xuewen,  Chevalier, Manuel, Wei, Xiao, Pan, Yanfang, and Chen, Yingyong
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Nov 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110609
  6. Open-Access
    An atlas of southern African pollen types and their climatic affinities
    Chevalier, Manuel, Chase, Brian M., Quick, Lynne J., and Scott, Louis
    Palaeoecology of Africa, Nov 2021. DOI: 10.1201/9781003162766-15

2020

  1. Open-Access
    Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies
    Chevalier, Manuel, Davis, Basil A.S., Heiri, Oliver, Seppä, Heikki, Chase, Brian M., Gajewski, Konrad, Lacourse, Terri, Telford, Richard J., Finsinger, Walter, Guiot, Joël, Kühl, Norbert, Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Tipton, John R., Carter, Vachel A., Brussel, Thomas, Phelps, Leanne N., Dawson, Andria, Zanon, Marco, Vallé, Francesca, Nolan, Connor, Mauri, Achille, Vernal, Anne, Izumi, Kenji, Holmström, Lasse, Marsicek, Jeremiah, Goring, Simon, Sommer, Philipp S., Chaput, Michelle, and Kupriyanov, Dmitry
    Earth-Science Reviews, Nov 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103384
  2. Open-Access
    The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2
    Davis, Basil A. S.,  Chevalier, Manuel, Sommer, Philipp S., Carter, Vachel A., Finsinger, Walter, Mauri, Achille, Phelps, Leanne N., Zanon, Marco, Abegglen, Roman, Åkesson, Christine M., Alba-Sánchez, Francisca, Anderson, R. Scott, Antipina, Tatiana G., Atanassova, Juliana R., Beer, Ruth, Belyanina, Nina I., Blyakharchuk, Tatyana A., Borisova, Olga K., Bozilova, Elissaveta, Bukreeva, Galina, Bunting, M. Jane, Clò, Eleonora, Colombaroli, Daniele, Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie, Desprat, Stéphanie, Di Rita, Federico, Djamali, Morteza, Edwards, Kevin J., Fall, Patricia L., Feurdean, Angelica, Fletcher, William J., Florenzano, Assunta, Furlanetto, Giulia, Gaceur, Emna, Galimov, Arsenii T., Gałka, Mariusz, García-Moreiras, Iria, Giesecke, Thomas, Grindean, Roxana, Guido, Maria Angela, Gvozdeva, Irina G., Herzschuh, Ulrike, Hjelle, Kari L., Ivanov, Sergey, Jahns, Susanne, Jankovska, Vlasta, Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Karpińska-Kołaczek, Monika, Kitaba, Ikuko, Kołaczek, Piotr, Lapteva, Elena G., Latałowa, Małgorzata, Lebreton, Vincent, Leroy, Suzanne, Leydet, Michelle, Lopatina, Darya A., López-Sáez, José Antonio, Lotter, André F., Magri, Donatella, Marinova, Elena, Matthias, Isabelle, Mavridou, Anastasia, Mercuri, Anna Maria, Mesa-Fernández, Jose Manuel, Mikishin, Yuri A., Milecka, Krystyna, Montanari, Carlo, Morales-Molino, César, Mrotzek, Almut, Muñoz Sobrino, Castor, Naidina, Olga D., Nakagawa, Takeshi, Nielsen, Anne Birgitte, Novenko, Elena Y., Panajiotidis, Sampson, Panova, Nata K., Papadopoulou, Maria, Pardoe, Heather S., Pȩdziszewska, Anna, Petrenko, Tatiana I., Ramos-Román, María J., Ravazzi, Cesare, Rösch, Manfred, Ryabogina, Natalia, Sabariego Ruiz, Silvia, Salonen, J. Sakari, Sapelko, Tatyana V., Schofield, James E., Seppä, Heikki, Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila, Stivrins, Normunds, Stojakowits, Philipp, Svobodova Svitavska, Helena, Świȩta-Musznicka, Joanna, Tantau, Ioan, Tinner, Willy, Tobolski, Kazimierz, Tonkov, Spassimir, Tsakiridou, Margarita, Valsecchi, Verushka, Zanina, Oksana G., and Zimny, Marcelina
    Earth System Science Data, Oct 2020. DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-2423-2020
  3. Open-Access
    Asymmetric response of forest and grassy biomes to climate variability across the African Humid Period: influenced by anthropogenic disturbance?
    Phelps, Leanne N.,  Chevalier, Manuel, Shanahan, Timothy M., Aleman, Julie C., Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin J., Kiahtipes, Christopher Albert, Broennimann, Olivier, Marchant, Robert A., Shekeine, John, Quick, Lynne J., Davis, Basil A. S., Guisan, Antoine, and Manning, Katie
    Ecography, Aug 2020. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04990
  4. Open-Access
    A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records
    Kaufman, Darrell, McKay, Nicholas, Routson, Cody, Erb, Michael, Davis, Basil, Heiri, Oliver, Jaccard, Samuel, Tierney, Jessica, Dätwyler, Christoph, Axford, Yarrow, Brussel, Thomas, Cartapanis, Olivier, Chase, Brian, Dawson, Andria, Vernal, Anne, Engels, Stefan, Jonkers, Lukas, Marsicek, Jeremiah, Moffa-Sánchez, Paola, Morrill, Carrie, Orsi, Anais, Rehfeld, Kira, Saunders, Krystyna, Sommer, Philipp S., Thomas, Elizabeth, Tonello, Marcela, Tóth, Mónika, Vachula, Richard, Andreev, Andrei, Bertrand, Sebastien, Biskaborn, Boris, Bringué, Manuel, Brooks, Stephen, Caniupán, Magaly,  Chevalier, Manuel, Cwynar, Les, Emile-Geay, Julien, Fegyveresi, John, Feurdean, Angelica, Finsinger, Walter, Fortin, Marie-Claude, Foster, Louise, Fox, Mathew, Gajewski, Konrad, Grosjean, Martin, Hausmann, Sonja, Heinrichs, Markus, Holmes, Naomi, Ilyashuk, Boris, Ilyashuk, Elena, Juggins, Steve, Khider, Deborah, Koinig, Karin, Langdon, Peter, Larocque-Tobler, Isabelle, Li, Jianyong, Lotter, André, Luoto, Tomi, Mackay, Anson, Magyari, Eniko, Malevich, Steven, Mark, Bryan, Massaferro, Julieta, Montade, Vincent, Nazarova, Larisa, Novenko, Elena, Pařil, Petr, Pearson, Emma, Peros, Matthew, Pienitz, Reinhard, Płóciennik, Mateusz, Porinchu, David, Potito, Aaron, Rees, Andrew, Reinemann, Scott, Roberts, Stephen, Rolland, Nicolas, Salonen, Sakari, Self, Angela, Seppä, Heikki, Shala, Shyhrete, St-Jacques, Jeannine-Marie, Stenni, Barbara, Syrykh, Liudmila, Tarrats, Pol, Taylor, Karen, Bos, Valerie, Velle, Gaute, Wahl, Eugene, Walker, Ian, Wilmshurst, Janet, Zhang, Enlou, and Zhilich, Snezhana
    Scientific Data, Dec 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0445-3

2019

  1. Orbital controls on Namib Desert hydroclimate over the past 50,000 years
    Chase, Brian M., Niedermeyer, Eva M., Boom, Arnoud, Carr, Andrew S.,  Chevalier, Manuel, He, Feng, Meadows, Michael E., Ogle, Neil, and Reimer, Paula J.
    Geology, 2019. DOI: 10.1130/g46334.1
  2. Extreme hydroclimate response gradients within the western Cape Floristic region of South Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum
    Chase, Brian M., Boom, Arnoud, Carr, Andrew S.,  Chevalier, Manuel, Quick, Lynne J., Verboom, G. Anthony, and Reimer, Paula J.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.07.006
  3. Open-Access
    PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data
    Khider, Deborah, Emile‐Geay, J., McKay, Nicholas P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., Alonso‐Garcia, M., Bertrand, S., Bothe, Oliver, Brewer, P., Bunn, A.,  Chevalier, Manuel, Comas‐Bru, Laia, Csank, A., Dassié, E., DeLong, K., Felis, Thomas, Francus, P., Frappier, A., Gray, W., Goring, S., Jonkers, Lukas, Kahle, M., Kaufman, D., Kehrwald, Natalie M., Martrat, B., McGregor, H., Richey, J., Schmittner, A., Scroxton, Nick, Sutherland, E., Thirumalai, K., Allen, K., Arnaud, F., Axford, Y., Barrows, T., Bazin, L., Pilaar Birch, S. E., Bradley, E., Bregy, J., Capron, E., Cartapanis, Olivier, Chiang, H.‐W., Cobb, Kim M., Debret, M., Dommain, R., Du, J., Dyez, K., Emerick, S., Erb, Michael P., Falster, G., Finsinger, Walter, Fortier, D., Gauthier, Nicolas, George, S., Grimm, E., Hertzberg, J., Hibbert, F., Hillman, A., Hobbs, W., Huber, M., Hughes, A. L. C., Jaccard, S., Ruan, J., Kienast, Markus, Konecky, B., Le Roux, G., Lyubchich, V., Novello, V. F., Olaka, L., Partin, J. W., Pearce, C., Phipps, S. J., Pignol, C., Piotrowska, N., Poli, M.‐S., Prokopenko, A., Schwanck, F., Stepanek, C., Swann, G. E. A., Telford, R., Thomas, E., Thomas, Z., Truebe, S., Gunten, L., Waite, A., Weitzel, Nils, Wilhelm, B., Williams, J., Williams, J. J., Winstrup, M., Zhao, N., and Zhou, Y.
    Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Oct 2019. DOI: 10.1029/2019PA003632
  4. Open-Access
    straditize: Digitizing stratigraphic diagrams
    Sommer, Philipp S., Rech, Dilan,  Chevalier, Manuel, and Davis, Basil A. S.
    Journal of Open Source Software, Feb 2019. DOI: 10.21105/joss.01216
  5. Enabling possibilities to quantify past climate from fossil assemblages at a global scale
    Chevalier, Manuel
    Global and Planetary Change, Jan 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.01.016
  6. Modern drought conditions in western Sahel unprecedented in the past 1600 years
    Carré, Matthieu, Azzoug, Moufok, Zaharias, Paul, Camara, Abdoulaye, Cheddadi, Rachid,  Chevalier, Manuel, Fiorillo, Denis, Gaye, Amadou T., Janicot, Serge, Khodri, Myriam, Lazar, Alban, Lazareth, Claire E., Mignot, Juliette, Mitma García, Nancy, Patris, Nicolas, Perrot, Océane, and Wade, Malick
    Climate Dynamics, Feb 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4311-3

2018

  1. Climatic controls on Later Stone Age human adaptation in Africa’s southern Cape
    Chase, Brian M., Faith, J. Tyler, Mackay, Alex,  Chevalier, Manuel, Carr, Andrew S., Boom, Arnoud, Lim, Sophak, and Reimer, Paula J.
    Journal of Human Evolution, Jan 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.09.006
  2. A high-resolution record of Holocene climate and vegetation dynamics from the southern Cape coast of South Africa: pollen and microcharcoal evidence from Eilandvlei
    Quick, Lynne J., Chase, Brian M., Wündsch, Michael, Kirsten, Kelly L.,  Chevalier, Manuel, Mäusbacher, Roland, Meadows, Michael E., and Haberzettl, Torsten
    Journal of Quaternary Science, Jul 2018. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3028

2017

  1. Late Pleistocene-Holocene vegetation and climate change in the Middle Kalahari, Lake Ngami, Botswana
    Cordova, Carlos E., Scott, Louis, Chase, Brian M., and Chevalier, Manuel
    Quaternary Science Reviews, Sep 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.06.036
  2. The dynamic relationship between temperate and tropical circulation systems across South Africa since the last glacial maximum
    Chase, Brian M.,  Chevalier, Manuel, Boom, Arnoud, and Carr, Andrew S.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.011
  3. Qualitative assessment of PMIP3 rainfall simulations across the eastern African monsoon domains during the mid-Holocene and the Last Glacial Maximum
    Chevalier, Manuel, Brewer, Simon, and Chase, Brian M.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, Jan 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.028

2016

  1. Determining the drivers of long-term aridity variability: a southern African case study
    Chevalier, Manuel, and Chase, Brian M.
    Journal of Quaternary Science, Feb 2016. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2850
  2. 50,000 years of vegetation and climate change in the southern Namib Desert, Pella, South Africa
    Lim, Sophak, Chase, Brian M.,  Chevalier, Manuel, and Reimer, Paula J.
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Jun 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.03.001
  3. Temperature Range Shifts for Three European Tree Species over the Last 10,000 Years
    Cheddadi, Rachid, Araújo, Miguel B., Maiorano, Luigi, Edwards, Mary, Guisan, Antoine, Carré, Matthieu,  Chevalier, Manuel, and Pearman, Peter B.
    Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01581

2015

  1. Southeast African records reveal a coherent shift from high- to low-latitude forcing mechanisms along the east African margin across last glacial–interglacial transition
    Chevalier, Manuel, and Chase, Brian M.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, Oct 2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.009
  2. Influence of tropical easterlies in southern Africa’s winter rainfall zone during the Holocene
    Chase, Brian M., Lim, Sophak,  Chevalier, Manuel, Boom, Arnoud, Carr, Andrew S., Meadows, Michael E., and Reimer, Paula J.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, Jan 2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.011
  3. Evolving southwest African response to abrupt deglacial North Atlantic climate change events
    Chase, Brian M., Boom, Arnoud, Carr, Andrew S., Carré, Matthieu,  Chevalier, Manuel, Meadows, Michael E., Pedro, Joel B., Stager, J. Curt, and Reimer, Paula J.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.023

2014

  1. Open-Access
    CREST (Climate REconstruction SofTware): a probability density function (PDF)-based quantitative climate reconstruction method
    Chevalier, Manuel, Cheddadi, Rachid, and Chase, Brian M.
    Climate of the Past, Nov 2014. DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-2081-2014

2013

  1. Quantification of climate change for the last 20,000years from Wonderkrater, South Africa: Implications for the long-term dynamics of the Intertropical Convergence Zone
    Truc, Loïc,  Chevalier, Manuel, Favier, Charly, Cheddadi, Rachid, Meadows, Michael E., Scott, Louis, Carr, Andrew S., Smith, Gideon F., and Chase, Brian M.
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Sep 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.06.024

2012

  1. A continuous record of vegetation and climate change over the past 50,000years in the Fujian Province of eastern subtropical China
    Yue, Yuanfu, Zheng, Zhuo, Huang, Kangyou,  Chevalier, Manuel, Chase, Brian M., Carré, Matthieu, Ledru, Marie-Pierre, and Cheddadi, Rachid
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Dec 2012. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.018