Climate change since the last glacial period in Lebanon and the persistence of Mediterranean species

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Cheddadi, R., Khater, C.
• Other Authors: Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Center For Remote Sensing CNRS-L, National Council for Scientific Research = Conseil national de la recherche scientifique du Liban Lebanon (CNRS-L)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Quaternary climate; Mediterranean; Lebanon; Refugia; Younger Dryas; Holocene; envir; geo; Greenland; High Lake; Greenland ice core; ice core; NGRIP
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.010; https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-03038918

International audience In this study, we quantified the mean January temperature (Tjan) and both winter (Pw) and summer (Ps) precipitation from three fossil pollen records from Lebanon. Tjan showed a strong correlation with the global temperature changes retrieved in the NGRIP Greenland ice core. Th...