Lake and peat deposits have been used in the last decades as records of natural and anthropogenic-induced changes in the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and anthropogenic inputs on different temporal and spatial scales.
The present session will be devoted to the use of multi-proxy studies of past environmental changes as recorded by such archives on centennial and millennial time-scales, as well as to the understanding of processes and mechanisms governing the “reliably” of these archives.
Relevant topics will include: (i) reconstructions of vegetation and climate of the past through the integrated analysis of different terrestrial archives; (ii) reconstructions of the human impact on the environment, in terms of organic and inorganic pollutant, land-use, fires, etc; (iii) reconstruction of soil forming environments of the past and landscape evolution; iv) influence of organic matter diagenesis, humification, and/or vertical migrations on the reliability of these records.