Topic VII - Regional paleoreconstructions > VII-2-Lakes in the Neotropics: Archives of paleoclimate and environmental change

Conveners

1. Edward Duarte (Environnements, Laboratoire Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne – EDYTEM, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France)
2. Liseth Pérez (Chair of Organic Biogeochemistry in Geo-Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen 52056, Germany)
3. Jonathan Obrist-Farner (Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
4. Lina C. Pérez-Angel (Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, USA)

Lacustrine records have been important to understand past changes in climate and environmental conditions. Paleolimnological investigations have provided invaluable proxy data to understand environmental events that drive ecological change, while also serving to calibrate and evaluate the accuracy of climate models. However, the paucity of high-resolution proxy records from tropical and subtropical regions, in comparison to those from higher-latitude lakes, has resulted in an inability to reconcile paleoclimate proxy data and climate models at key intervals in Earth’s history and to develop effective management strategies for freshwater ecosystems in the Neotropics.

We welcome abstracts on all topics related to low-latitude lake bodies including limnology, hydrology, geomorphology, geophysics, remote sensing, ecology, data and modeling, climate change, anthropogenic impacts, as well as the policy and management of these water resources.