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The objective of my research is the study of long-term climate change in the intertropical zone, with a focus on seasonality and interannual variability.

I use high resolution geochemical records in fossil mollusk shells to reconstruct the natural variability of (1) El Niño and the Southern oscillation (ENSO) in the Eastern tropical Pacific, from the Miocene to modern times and (2) the seasonality and intensity of the West African Monsoon  in western Sahel during the Holocene.

I also coordinate the scientific activities of the UPCH biogeoscience group, which includes a broad range of projects, including studies of the Peruvian coastal biodiversity and the history of the Humboldt system.

PUBLICATIONS (please contact me if you would like a pdf copy)
 

2021

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Benites-Palomino, A., Vélez-Juarbe, J., Collareta, A., Ochoa, D., Altamirano, A., Carré, M., Laime, M.J., Urbina, M., Salas-Gismondi, R. (2021). Nasal compartmentalization in Kogiidae (Cetacea, Physeteroidea): insights from a new late Miocene dwarf sperm whale from the Pisco Formation. Papers in Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1351

 

Valqui J., Ibañez-Erquiaga B., Pacheco A. S., Wilbur L., Ochoa D., Cardich J., Pérez-Huaranga M., Salas-Gismondi R., Pérez A., Indacochea A., Peltroche J. A., Rivera Ch. M., Carré M. (2021). Changes in rocky intertidal communities after the 2015 and 2017 El Niño events along the Peruvian coast. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science. 250, 107142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.107142

 

Ochoa, D., Salas-Gismondi, R., DeVries, T.J., Baby, P., de Muizon, C., Altamirano, A., Barbosa-Espitia, A., Foster, D.A., Quispe, K., Cardich, J., Gutiérrez, D., Perez, A., Valqui, J., Urbina, M., Carré, M. (2021). Late Neogene evolution of the Peruvian margin and its ecosystems: a synthesis from the Sacaco record. International Journal of Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02003-1

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2020

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Brierley, C.M., Zhao, A., Harrison, S.P., Braconnot, P., Williams, C.J.R., Thornalley, D.J.R., Shi, X., Peterschmitt, J.-Y., Ohgaito, R., Kaufman, D.S., Kageyama, M., Hargreaves, J.C., Erb, M.P., Emile-Geay, J., D’Agostino, R., Chandan, D., Carré, M., Bartlein, P.J., Zheng, W., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Q., Yang, H., Volodin, E.M., Tomas, R.A., Routson, C., Peltier, W.R., Otto-Bliesner, B., Morozova, P.A., McKay, N.P., Lohmann, G., Legrande, A.N., Guo, C., Cao, J., Brady, E., Annan, J.D., Abe-Ouchi, A. (2020). Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations. Clim. Past 16, 1847–1872. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1847-2020

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Konecky, B.L., McKay, N.P., Churakova (Sidorova), O.V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E.P., DeLong, K.L., Falster, G.M., Fischer, M.J., Jones, M.D., Jonkers, L., Kaufman, D.S., Leduc, G., Managave, S.R., Martrat, B., Opel, T., Orsi, A.J., Partin, J.W., Sayani, H.R., Thomas, E.K., Thompson, D.M., Tyler, J.J., Abram, N.J., Atwood, A.R., Cartapanis, O., Conroy, J.L., Curran, M.A., Dee, S.G., Deininger, M., Divine, D.V., Kern, Z., Porter, T.J., Stevenson, S.L., von Gunten, L., and Iso2k Project Members (2020). The Iso2k database: a global compilation  of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid  understanding of Common Era climate. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 12, 2261–2288. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2261-2020

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Méndez, C., Carré, M., Maldonado, A., Seguel, R., Jackson, D. (2020). Site Context and the Spatial Organization of a Late Holocene Coastal Hunter-Gatherer Campsite in North-Central Chile, South America. Latin American Antiquity 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2020.60

 

2019

 

Carré M., M. Azzoug, P. Zaharias, A. Camara , R. Cheddadi , M. Chevalier, D. Fiorillo, A. Gaye,  S. Janicot, M. Khodri,  A. Lazar, C. E. Lazareth, J. Mignot, N. Mitma Garcia, N. Patris, O. Perrot, M. Wade (2019), Modern drought conditions in western Sahel unprecedented in the past 1600 years. Climate Dynamics, 52(3), 1949-1964. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4311-3.

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Pinaya, J. L. D., F. W. Cruz, G. C. T. Ceccantini, P. L. P. Corrêa, Pitma, N., F. Vemado, M. Lopez, A. J. Pereira Filho, C. H. Grohmann, C. M. Chiessi, N. M. Strikis, I. Horak-Terra, W. H. L. Pinaya, V. B. de Meideros, R. Santos, T. K. Akabane, M. A. Silva, R. Cheddadi, M. Bush, A.-J. Henrot, L. François, A. Hambuckers, F. Boyer, M. Carré, E. Coissac, F. Ficetola, K. Y. Huang, A.-M. Lézine, M. Nourelbait, A. Rhoujjati, P. Taberlet, F. Sarmiento, D. Abel-Schaad, F. Alba-Sanchez, Z. Zheng, and P. E. De Oliveira (2019), Brazilian montane rainforest expansion induced by Heinrich Stadial 1 event, Scientific Report. doi :10.1038/s41598-019-53036-1

 

2018

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​Shi C., V. Daux, Z. Li, X. Wu, T. Fan, Q. Ma, X. Wu, H. Tian, , D. Ji, W. Wang, A. Rinke, W. Gong, Y. Liu, Y. Chen, V. Masson-Delmotte (2018), The response of relative humidity to centennial-scale warming over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau inferred from tree-ring width chronologies. Climate Dynamics , https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4107-5.

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​2017

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Christol, A., P. Wuscher, N. Goepfert, V. Mogollón, P. Béarez, B. Gutiérrez, and M. Carré (2017), The Las Salinas palaeo-lagoon in the Sechura Desert (Peru): Evolution during the last two millennia, The Holocene, 27, 26-38.

Camara, A., K. Hardy, E. Dioh, M. Gueye, R. Piqué, M. Carré, M. Sall, and M. W. Diouf (2017), Amas et sites coquilliers du delta du Saloum (Sénégal) : Passé et présent, L'Anthropologie, 121, 204-214.


Carré, M., and R. Cheddadi (2017), Seasonality in long-term climate change, Quaternaire, 28, 173-177.

2016

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Carré, M., D. Jackson, A. Maldonado, B. M. Chase, and J. P. Sachs (2016), Variability of 14C reservoir age and air-sea flux of CO2 in the Peru-Chile upwelling region during the past 12,000 years, Quaternary Research, 85, 87-93.


Cheddadi, R., M. B. Araújo, L. Maiorano, M. Edwards, A. Guisan, M. Carré, M. Chevalier, and P. B. Pearman (2016), Temperature Range Shifts for Three European Tree Species over the Last 10,000 Years, Frontiers in Plant Science, 7.


Emile-Geay, J., K. M. Cobb, M. Carre, P. Braconnot, J. Leloup, Y. Zhou, S. P. Harrison, T. Correge, H. V. McGregor, M. Collins, R. Driscoll, M. Elliot, B. Schneider, and A. Tudhope (2016), Links between tropical Pacific seasonal, interannual and orbital variability during the Holocene, Nature Geoscience, 9, 168-173.


Hardy, K., A. Camara, R. Piqué, E. Dioh, M. Guèye, H. D. Diadhiou, M. Faye, and M. Carré (2016), Shellfishing and shell midden construction in the Saloum Delta, Senegal, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 41, 19-32.


Nourelbait, M., A. Rhoujjati, A. Benkaddour, M. Carré, F. Eynaud, P. Martinez, and R. Cheddadi (2016), Climate change and ecosystems dynamics over the last 6000 years in the Middle Atlas, Morocco, Climate of  the Past, 12, 1029-1042.


Tabel, J., C. Khater, A. Rhoujjati, L. Dezileau, I. Bouimetarhan, M. Carré, L. Vidal, A. Benkaddour, M. Nourelbait, and R. Cheddadi (2016), Environmental changes over the past 25 000 years in the southern Middle Atlas, Morocco, Journal of Quaternary Science, 31, 93-102.
 

2015

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Chase, B. M., A. Boom, A. S. Carr, M. Carré, M. Chevalier, M. E. Meadows, J. B. Pedro, J. C. Stager, and P. J. Reimer (2015), Evolving southwest African response to abrupt deglacial North Atlantic climate change events, Quaternary Science Reviews, 121, 132-136.


Wade, M., J. Mignot, A. Lazar, A. T. Gaye, and M. Carré (2015), On the spatial coherence of rainfall over the Saloum delta (Senegal) from seasonal to decadal time scales, Frontiers in Earth Science, Atmospheric Science, 3, 30.

2014

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Carré, M., J. P. Sachs, S. Purca, A. J. Schauer, P. Braconnot, R. Angeles Falcón, M. Julien, and D. Lavallée (2014), Holocene history of ENSO variance and asymmetry in the eastern tropical Pacific, Science, 345, 1045-1048.


Shi, C., V. Masson-Delmotte, V. Daux, Z. Li, M. Carré, and J. Moore (2014), Unprecedented recent warming rate and temperature variability over the east Tibetan Plateau inferred from Alpine treeline dendrochronology, Climate Dynamics, 1-14.

2013

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Amami, B., L. Rhazi, M. Chaibi, S. Fauquette, M. Ayt Ougougdal, A. Charif, M. Ridaoui, S. Bouahim, M. Carré, A. Daoud-Bouattour, P. Grillas, and S. D. Muller (2013), Late Quaternary history of a Mediterranean temporary pool from western Morocco, based on sedimentological and palynological evidence, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 392, 281-292.


Carré, M., J. P. Sachs, A. J. Schauer, W. E. Rodríguez, and F. C. Ramos (2013), Reconstructing El Niño-Southern Oscillation activity and ocean temperature seasonality from short-lived marine mollusk shells from Peru, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 371, 45-53.


Li, J., Z. Zheng, K. Huang, S. Yang, B. Chase, V. Valsecchi, M. Carré, and R. Cheddadi (2013), Vegetation changes during the past 40,000 years in Central China from a long fossil record, Quaternary International, 310, 221-226.


Xu, J. X., Z. Zheng, K. Y. Huang, Y. Y. Yue, J. Li, B. M. Chase, M. P. Ledru, M. Carré, and R. Cheddadi (2013), Impacts of human activities on ecosystems during the past 1300 years in Pingnan area of Fujian Province, China, Quaternary International, 286, 29-35.

2012

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Azzoug, M., M. Carré, B. M. Chase, A. Deme, A. Lazar, C. E. Lazareth, A. J. Schauer, M. Mandeng-Yogo, M. Simier, A. Thierno-Gaye, and L. T. de Morais (2012), Positive precipitation-evaporation budget from AD 460 to 1090 in the Saloum Delta (Senegal) indicated by mollusk oxygen isotopes, Global and Planetary Change, 98-99, 54-62.


Azzoug, M., M. Carré, and A. J. Schauer (2012), Reconstructing the duration of the West African Monsoon season from growth patterns and isotopic signals of shells of Anadara senilis (Saloum Delta, Senegal), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 346-347, 145-152.


Ballester, B., D. Jackson, M. Carré, A. Maldonado, C. Méndez, and R. Seguel (2012), An Early Holocene task camp (~ 8.5 ka cal. BP) on the coast of the semi-arid north of Chile., Antiquity, 86, 88-98.


Carré, M., M. Azzoug, I. Bentaleb, B. M. Chase, M. Fontugne, D. Jackson, M.-P. Ledru, A. Maldonado, J. P. Sachs, and A. J. Schauer (2012), Mid-Holocene mean climate in the south-eastern Pacific and its influence on South America, Quaternary International, 253, 55-66.


Carré, M., and E. Dufour (2012), Estrategias estacionales de explotación del medio marino - el aporte de la esclerocronologia y del estudio isotópico -, in Prehistoria de la costa extremo-Sur del Perú. Los Pescadores arcaicos de la quebrada de los Burros (10000 - 7000 a.P.), edited by D. Lavallée and M. Julien, pp. 195-203, Travaux de l'Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, Lima.


Carré, M., J. P. Sachs, J. M. Wallace, and C. Favier (2012), Exploring errors in paleoclimate proxy reconstructions using Monte Carlo simulations: paleotemperature from mollusk and coral geochemistry, Climate of the Past, 8, 433-450.


Fontugne, M., P. Usselmann, M. Carré, and E. Dufour (2012), La QLB en el Holoceno temprano y medio : el impacto del fenómeno ENSO, in Prehistoria de la costa extremo-Sur del Perú. Los Pescadores arcaicos de la quebrada de los Burros (10000 - 7000 a.P.), edited by D. Lavallée and M. Julien, pp. 77-89, Travaux de l'Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, Lima.


Lerosey-Aubril, R., T. A. Hegna, C. Kier, E. Bonino, J. Habersetzer, and M. Carré (2012), Controls on Gut Phosphatisation: The Trilobites from the Weeks Formation Lagerstätte (Cambrian; Utah), PLoS ONE, 7, e32934.


Muller, S. D., C. Miramont, H. Bruneton, M. Carré, M. Sottocornola, M. Court-Picon, J.-L. de Beaulieu, T. Nakagawa, and P. Schevin (2012), A palaeoecological perspective for the conservation and restoration of wetland plant communities in the central French alps, with particular emphasis on alder carr vegetation, Review of Paleaobotany and Palynology, 171, 124-139.


Sadler, J., M. Carré, M. Azzoug, A. J. Schauer, J. Ledesma, F. Cardenas, B. M. Chase, I. Bentaleb, S. D. Muller, E. J. Rohling, and J. P. Sachs (2012), Reconstructing past upwelling intensity and the seasonal dynamics of primary productivity along the Peruvian coastline from mollusk shell stable isotopes, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 13, Q01015.


Yue, Y., Z. Zheng, K. Huang, M. Chevalier, B. M. Chase, M. Carré, M.-P. Ledru, and R. Cheddadi (2012), A continuous record of vegetation and climate change over the past 50,000 years in the Fujian Province of eastern subtropical China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 365-366, 115-123.
 

2011

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Jackson, D., A. Maldonado, M. Carré, and R. Seguel (2011), Huentelauquén Cultural Complex: The earliest peopling of the Pacific Coast in the South-American southern Cone, in Peuplements et préhistoire en Amériques, edited by D. Vialou, pp. 221-232, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Paris.


Lavallée, D., M. Julien, P. Béarez, A. Bolaños, M. Carré, A. Chevalier, T. Delabarde, M. Fontugne, C. Rodríguez-Loredo, L. Klaric, P. Usselmann, and M. Vanhaeren (2011), Quebrada de los burros. Los primeros pescadores del litoral Pacífico en el extremo sur peruano, Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena, 43, 333-351.
 

2009

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Carré, M., L. Klaric, D. Lavallée, M. Julien, I. Bentaleb, M. Fontugne, and O. Kawka (2009), Insights into early Holocene hunter-gatherer mobility on the Peruvian Southern Coast from mollusk gathering seasonality, Journal of Archaeological Science, 36, 1173-1178.


Jackson, D., A. Maldonado, and M. Carré (2009), Early Archaic occupation (9265 Cal. Yr. BP.) on the semi-arid coast of Chile, Current Research in the Pleistocene, 26, 3-5.
 

2007

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Carré, M. (2007), El mes de recolección de la macha (Mesodesma donacium) determinado por sus líneas de crecimiento: aplicaciones arqueológicas, Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, 36, 299-304.

2006

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Bentaleb, I., C. Langlois, C. Martin, P. Iacumin, M. Carré, P.-O. Antoine, F. Duranthon, I. Moussa, J.-J. Jaeger, N. Barrett, and R. Kandorp (2006), Rhinocerotid tooth enamel 18O/16O variability between 23 and 12 Ma in southwestern France, Comptes Rendus Geosciences, 338, 172-179.


Carré, M., I. Bentaleb, O. Bruguier, E. Ordinola, N. T. Barrett, and M. Fontugne (2006), Calcification rate influence on trace element concentrations in aragonitic bivalve shells: Evidences and mechanisms, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 4906-4920.

2005

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Carré, M., I. Bentaleb, D. Blamart, N. Ogle, F. Cardenas, S. Zevallos, R. M. Kalin, L. Ortlieb, and M. Fontugne (2005), Stable isotopes and sclerochronology of the bivalve Mesodesma donacium: potential application to peruvian paleoceanographic reconstructions, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 228, 4-25.


Carré, M., I. Bentaleb, M. Fontugne, and D. Lavallée (2005), Strong El Niño events during the early Holocene: stable isotope evidence from Peruvian sea-shells., The Holocene, 15, 42-47.
 

2004

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Fontugne, M., M. Carré, I. Bentaleb, M. Julien, and D. Lavallée (2004), Radiocarbon reservoir age variations in the south Peruvian upwelling during the Holocene., Radiocarbon, 46, 531-537.

 

 

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