Human-triggered magnification of erosion rates in European Alps since the Bronze Age

W Rapuc, C Giguet-Covex, J Bouchez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A major feature of the Anthropocene is the drastic increase in global soil erosion. Soil
erosion is threatening Earth habitability not only as soils are an essential component of the …

Performance of the REVEALS model to reconstruct present mountain vegetation cover in the North-Western Alps: A model evaluation for past land cover …

A Julien, C Giguet-Covex, E Messager, F Mazier… - Quaternary Science …, 2025 - Elsevier
Mountain ecosystems have been significantly shaped by both climate and land use
changes. In order to better understand the present status of mountain ecosystems, it is …

[HTML][HTML] From a coastal plain to an anthropized fluvial valley (NW Brittany, France): 7.3 kyr of paleoenvironmental evolution from sedimentological, palynological and …

O David, M Vidal, A Gorczyńska, A Penaud… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Over the Holocene (last 11.7 kyr), the Brittany coastal region has undergone major
changes in response to rising sea level, climatic fluctuations and increasing anthropogenic …

Erosion regime controls sediment environmental DNA‐based community reconstruction

MA Morlock, S Rodriguez‐Martinez… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Analysis of environmental DNA detected in lake sediments shows promise to
become a great paleoecological technique that can provide detailed information about …

The sources and fates of lake sedimentary DNA

C Giguet-Covex, S Jelavić, A Foucher… - … Change Using Lake …, 2023 - Springer
For over two decades, ancient DNA (aDNA) from various organisms has been successfully
recovered from lake sediments from all over the world, ranging from decades to hundreds of …

Half of the soil erosion in the Alps during the Holocene is explained by transient erosion crises as a consequence of rapid human land clearing

T Mazure, GM Saulnier, C Giguet-Covex… - The …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Human land use changes have altered soil erosion for millennia with extensive
consequences on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems as well as on biogeochemical cycles …

Investigating drivers of cyanobacterial blooms in Aotearoa–New Zealand lakes using sedimentary ancient DNA

M Picard - 2023 - researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz
Healthy lake ecosystems support biodiversity and human populations. They provide many
ecosystem services such as water, food and energy. Lakes can be impacted by natural …

Terrestrial Fauna and Hominin DNA from Sedimentary Archives

TJ Murchie, C Giguet-Covex, PD Heintzman… - … Change Using Lake …, 2023 - Springer
The study of animals, including humans, has been at the forefront of ancient DNA research
since the first Egyptian mummies and quagga were genetically studied in 1984 (Pääbo …

Aquatic plant dynamic and fishes over the last 1800 years in the Lake Aiguebelette (Northern French Alps)

C Giguet-covex, E Messager, F Arthaud… - ScienceOpen …, 2022 - scholar.archive.org
Aims Our aims are to test the relevance of lake sedDNA (analysed by the metabarcoding
approach) to 1) track aquatic plants and fishes communities dynamics, 2) reconstruct past …