Past vegetation dynamics and their impact on climate
We thus invite contributions to the broad theme of past vegetation dynamics and their interaction with climate. These include but are not limited to (a) vegetation simulations of various time intervals, (b) new large-scale data and reconstruction compilations, (c) data–model and inter–model comparison studies, (d) vegetation-climate dynamics inferred from models or compilations of vegetation records, (e) the influence of past land use and fire dynamics on vegetation and climate, and (f) progress in data–model comparison tools and techniques. Studies focusing on currently understudied regions are particularly welcome. This session is sponsored by the PalMod project (www.palmod.de).