Climate change has long shaped the distribution, adaptation, and extinction of terrestrial life. Past climate variability has driven large-scale migrations, evolutionary innovations, and ecosystem restructuring, while modern human activities have added unprecedented pressures to biodiversity and habitats. Understanding the complex interactions between climate and life is essential for assessing the ongoing biodiversity crisis and developing effective strategies for future conservation.

This session explores how climate influences terrestrial life and ecosystems across timescales – from deep-time events to present, and future challenges. We welcome multidisciplinary studies integrating climate science, ecology, paleoecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation.

Topics of interest include, 


- Extinctions: drivers, mechanisms, and ecological consequences

- Biodiversity: changes in species distribution and emerging trends
- Vegetation and biome dynamics

- Climate- and human-induced habitat fragmentation and ecological connectivity.

- Adaptation and resilience: species and ecosystem response to environmental changes
- Climate-human-faunal interactions and influence on ecosystems

- Insights from advanced observations, ecological datasets and climate-ecosystem models 


By connecting past, present, and future perspectives, this session aims to forge collaborations and cross-disciplinary dialogue on climate–life interactions and implications for terrestrial ecosystems.