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Humans, social elements, and natural processes interact with each other and the environment through time. Understanding interactions and feedback mechanisms in these so-called past socio–environmental systems helps society to adapt, build resilience and develop more sustainable practices. This special issue contains articles describing past socio-environmental systems (SES) at a range of timescales, highlighting the need for interdisciplinarity and collaboration for advancing in this field of paleoscience.
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Editorial
> Advancing past socio–environmental systems [p.3]
Xavier Benito, Giorgia Camperio, Ignacio A. Jara, Estelle Razanatsoa and Iván Hernández-Almeida
Science Highlights
> Archaeoecology: Using archaeological data to study ecosystems of the human past [p.4-5]
Stefani A. Crabtree
> Connecting paleoecology and art: A novel approach to recall socio–ecological memories in inhabited volcanic settings [p.6-7]
Catalina González-Arango
> Integration of proxies in human–environmental systems: Paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and archaeology [p.8-9]
Macarena M. Zarza, X. Benito, C. Flores, S.K. Mandal, A. Maldonado and S.Y. Maezumi
> Situating past societies in their environments: Emerging techniques [p.10-11]
Simon E. Connor
> Environmental history of the northern Maya Lowlands: Evidence from a karstic lake [p.12-13]
Alejandra Rodriguez-Abaunza and Alex Correa-Metrio
> Speleothems as a novel tool to elucidate human–fire–ecosystem dynamics in tropical Australian savanna [p.14-15]
Elena Argiriadis, R.F. Denniston, S. Ondei and D.M.J.S Bowman
> Pre-Columbian legacy and modern land use in the Bolivian Amazon [p.16-17]
Umberto Lombardo
> Interactions between past societies and environmental change in the Lake Titicaca region (tropical Andes) [p.18-19]
Christophe Delaere, S. Guédron and S.C. Fritz
> Past synchronies, asynchronies, and collations between naturally and anthropogenically driven changes in northern Chile [p.20-21]
Antonio Maldonado, C. Méndez and M. Uribe
> Human–environment interactions in south Asian watersheds over the last 100 years: A multi-disciplinary analysis of talavs [p.22-23]
Atreyee Bhattacharya, J.S Leonard-Pingel, S. Sarkar, G. Arora, R. Ray, A. Ambilili, A.V. Michelson, P.K. Mishra, M. Desimone, S. Chakraborty, P. Sabale, K. Bajaj, A. Bhattacharya, R. Balaji and A. Bazaz
> Paleoenvironmental change and human activity at Okomu National Park, Nigeria [p.24-25]
Emuobosa A. Orijemie, T.O. Ayelagbe, A.S. Diya, A.J. Ibirogb and E.T. Olaleye
> Newly discovered Plio-Pleistocene sites in west Mt. Kenya: Potential tropical high elevation refugia? [p.26-27]
Rahab N. Kinyanjui, A. Grossman, F. M. Kirera, V. Waweru, N.R. Malit, C. Omuombo, H. Mashaka L.N. Chege,F. Nderitu and R. Kinyua
> Insight into the 4.2 ka event records in northeast India: A global connection and the geological evidence [p.28-29]
Nivedita Mehrotra and Santosh K. Shah
> pSESYNTH project: Community mobilization for a multi-disciplinary paleo database of the Global South [p.30-31]
Charuta Kulkarni, I.A. Jara, M. Chevalier, A.A. Isa, K. Alinezhad, S.O. Brugger, M.M.E. Bunbury, C. Cordero-Oviedo, C. Courtney-Mustaphi, P. Echeverría-Galindo, T. Ensafi Moghaddam, V. Ferrara, F. Garcia-Rodriguez, P. Gitau, M. Hannaford, A. Herbert, A. Hernández, B. Jalali, D. K. Jha, R.N. Kinyanjui, G. Koren, H. Mackay, C.A. Mansilla, O. Margalef, S. Mukhopadhyay, O. Onafeso, P. Riris, A. Rodriguez-Abaunza, P. Rodríguez-Zorro, S. Saeidi, A. S. Ratnayake, C. Seitz, M. Spate, C. Vásquez and X. Benito
Fellowship Reports
> Interrogating the digital eye: Building capacity to analyze and interpret sedimentary charcoal records from African grassy biomes [p.32]
> Paleoecology of mangroves along the Kenyan coast [p.33]
> Phylogenetic diversity in space: A tool to evaluate the effect of paleoclimate on terrestrial biota [p.34]
> Lake sedimentary DNA research: Extending the sedaDNA network across Latin America [p.35]
> Fog-dependent forests in southern Atacama face threat from drought [p.36]
> Dendrochronological potential of Tarara colorada (Platymiscium ulei Harms) in tropical dry forests of Bolivia [p.37]
Opinion
> Advice on how to organize an ECR workshop: Lessons learned during PASES 2022 [p.39]
Workshop reports
> The warm Pliocene: Bridging the geological data and modeling communities [p.40]
> Numerical ecology and time series analysis of marine proxy data [p.41]
> A synthesis of Cenozoic paleoceanographic proxies for seawater oxygenation [p.42]
> Boron-CO2 workshop: Testing and extending the limits of the foraminiferal boron proxy for seawater pH and atmospheric CO2 reconstructions [p.43]
> Human traces in lake sediments: Towards a database for extracting regional signals [p.44]
> International Association of Limnogeologists - International Paleolimnology Association joint meeting: Lagos, Memorias del Territorio [p.45]
> Ice Core Science at the three Poles [p.46]
> Interglacials of the 41 kyr-world and the Middle Pleistocene Transition [p.47]
> Early-career researchers embrace interdisciplinary paleosciences: The joint PAGES–INQUA workshop [p.48]
Data stewardship
> News from paleoscience data organizations [p.49]
> The Peatland Paleo Proxy Database [p.50]
> Advancing Last Interglacial and Holocene sea-level databases [p.51]
Understanding past, present, and future changes in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is crucial to understanding a wide range of interconnected impacts. This special issue contains articles describing novel proxies and reconstructions of sea ice at a range of timescales from both poles, highlighting some state-of-the-art knowledge in this field.
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> Guest editors: Sea ice in the polar regions
> Guest editors: Early-career perspectives on ice-core science
Editorial
> Editorial: Sea ice in the polar regions [p.69]
Matthew Chadwick, K.E. Kohfeld, A. Leventer, A. Pieńkowski and H. Zimmermann
Science Highlights
> Sea ice in the satellite era [p.70-71]
Walter N. Meier
> An Inuit sea-ice-change atlas from Mittimatalik, Nunavut [p.72-73]
Katherine Wilson, A. Arreak, Sikumiut Committee and T. Bell
> Understanding differences in Antarctic sea-ice-extent reconstructions in the Ross, Amundsen, and Bellingshausen seas since 1900 [p.74-75]
Ryan L. Fogt, Q. Dalaiden and M.S. Zarembka
> Sea ice: An extraordinary and unique, yet fragile, biome [p.76-77]
Letizia Tedesco and Eric Post
> Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) as a new paleo proxy to investigate organismal responses to past environmental changes in Antarctica [p.78-79]
Linda Armbrecht
> Getting to the core of sea-ice reconstructions: Tracing Arctic sea ice using sedimentary ancient DNA [p.80-81]
Sara Harðardóttir, J.R. Evans, D.M. Grant and J.L. Ray
> Snow petrel stomach-oil deposits as a new biological archive of Antarctic sea ice [p.82-83]
Erin L. McClymont, M.J. Bentley, D.A. Hodgson, C.L. Spencer-Jones, T. Wardley, M.D. West, I.W. Croudace, S. Berg, D.R. Gröcke, G. Kuhn, S.S.R. Jamieson, L.C. Sime and R.A. Phillips
> Wood, whales, and the water's edge: Three proxies for interpreting past sea-ice conditions on arctic beaches [p.84-85]
F. Chantel Nixon
> Reconstructing Antarctic sea ice from 130,000 years ago [p.86-87]
Matthew Chadwick
> The importance of glacial-interglacial Antarctic sea-ice reconstructions in understanding atmospheric CO2 variability [p.88-89]
Jacob Jones, K.E. Kohfeld, H. Bostock and X. Crosta
> Past glacial-interglacial changes in Arctic Ocean sea-ice conditions [p.90-91]
Ruediger Stein, A. Kremer and K. Fahl
> Last Interglacial Arctic sea ice as simulated by the latest generation of climate models [p.92-93]
Marie Sicard, A.M. de Boer and L.C. Sime
> Quaternary Arctic sea-ice cover: Mostly perennial with seasonal openings during interglacials [p.94-95]
Anne de Vernal and Claude Hillaire-Marcel
Editorial
> Editorial: Early-career perspectives on ice-core science [p.97]
Jessica Badgeley, T.J. Fudge, B. Koffman and S. Rupper
Science Highlights
> From drilling to data: Retrieval, transportation, analysis, and long-term storage of ice-core samples [p.98-99]
Lindsey Davidge, H.L. Brooks and M.L. Mah
> Putting the time in time machine: Methods to date ice cores [p.100-101]
Kaden C. Martin, S. Barnett, T.J. Fudge and M.E. Helmick
> Our frozen past: Ice-core insights into Earth's climate history [p.102-103]
Kathleen A. Wendt, H.I. Bennett, A.J. Carter and J.C. Marks Peterson
> Ice-core records of atmospheric composition and chemistry [p.104-105]
Asmita Banerjee, Ben E. Riddell-Young and Ursula A. Jongebloed
> Fire trapped in ice: An introduction to biomass burning records from high-alpine and polar ice cores [p.106-107]
Sandra O. Brugger, Liam Kirkpatrick and Laurence Y. Yeung
> Ice-core records of human impacts on the environment [p.108-109]
Sophia M. Wensman, J.D. Morgan and K. Keegan
> The living record: Considerations for future biological studies of ice cores [p.110-111]
Madelyne C. Willis, N. Chellman and H.J. Smith
> Firn: Applications for the interpretation of ice-core records and estimation of ice-sheet mass balance [p.112-113]
Drake McCrimmon, A. Ihle, K. Keegan and S. Rupper
> What can deep ice, water, sediments, and bedrock at the ice–bed interface tell us? [p.114-115]
Caleb K. Walcott, E. Erwin and B.H. Hills
> Ice-core constraints on past sea-level change [p.116-117]
Andrew J. Christ, J.R. Andreasen and J. Toller
Fellowship reports
> West African paleoclimate reconstruction from estuary mangrove sediments [p.118]
> Anthropogenic effects on climate and hydrology of Central Brazil [p.119]
> The palynology and paleoenvironment of the coastal environment of Southern Nigeria in the Holocene [p.120]
Opinion
> SEDI-SHARE: A new community initiative to promote sediment sample sharing [p.121]
Workshop reports
> Studying the past, early-career researchers gather in the virtual world for a better future [p.122]
> Learning from the past for a sustainable future [p.123]
> Toward a more inclusive and diverse PAGES community [p.124]
> Understanding past hydrological changes in Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum [p.125]
> SISAL Phase 2: Towards a global compilation of speleothem trace element records [p.126]
> Climate Change: The Karst Record IX conference (KR9) [p.127]
> Low oxygen in coastal and marine waters [p.128]
> Gathering an interdisciplinary community to explore carbon-cycle complexities over the history of the Earth [p.129]
> The European Pollen Database in Neotoma: Expanding horizons to new proxy communities [p.130]
Data stewardship
> PAGES 2k data portal and the LiPDverse [p.131]
2021 marked the beginning of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, aiming to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. Honoring this important initiative, this issue of PAGES Magazine highlights the immense, and largely untapped, potential for synergy between paleoecology and restoration ecology. Examples illustrate the importance of paleoecology in establishing restoration “baselines” or reference conditions, determining the degree of anthropogenic impact, maintaining cultural landscapes, managing fire, and restoring missing ecosystem processes such as herbivory and pollination. This issue highlights opportunities to seamlessly integrate paleoecology and neo-ecology alongside other disciplines and knowledge streams, thereby contributing to the mainstreaming of long-term data into restoration ecology and biodiversity conservation.
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> Editorial: Mainstreaming paleoecology into ecosystem restoration [p.3]
Lindsey Gillson, C. Whitlock, P. Gell, S. Prader and W. Tinner
Science Highlights
> Multiple baselines for restoration ecology [p.4-5]
Sandra Nogué, L. de Nascimento, W.D. Gosling, N.J.D. Loughlin, E. Montoya and J.M. Wilmshurst
> Paleoecology-guided ecosystem management and restoration in the Western Mediterranean [p.6-7]
César Morales-Molino and Christoph Schwörer
> The value of long-term history of small and fragmented old-growth forests for restoration ecology [p.8-9]
Walter Finsinger, E. Cagliero, D. Morresi, L. Paradis, M. Čurović, M. Garbarino, N. Marchi, F. Meloni, V. Spalević, E. Lingua and R. Motta
> Understanding and enabling variability in wetlands [p.10-11]
Max Finlayson and Peter Gell
> How paleoecology can support peatland restoration [p.12-13]
Katarzyna Marcisz, S. Czerwiński, M. Lamentowicz, D. Łuców and M. Słowińskite, J.F. González-Rouco, R. Neukom and A. Schurer
> The future of the past: Applications of paleoecological findings in peatland restoration in Indonesia [p.14-15]
K. Anggi Hapsari, T.C. Jennerjahn and H. Behling
> The use of paleoecological data in mire and moorland conservation [p.16-17]
Frank M. Chambers
> Paleoecology helps optimize restoration efforts by identifying unrealistic pre-anthropic targets [p.18-19]
Valentí Rull
> Towards integrating paleoecological and traditional knowledge to preserve the Ethiopian Ericaceous belt [p.20-21]
Graciela Gil-Romera, M. Fekadu, L. Bittner, M. Zech, H.F. Lamb, L. Opgenoorth, S. Demissew, Z. Woldu and G. Miehe
> The role of paleoecology in restoring and managing the Patagonian landscape [p.22-23]
William P. Nanavati, C. Whitlock and A. Holz
> Millennial-scale perspective on biodiversity conservation of the forest-steppe ecotone in Europe [p.24-25]
Thomas Giesecke, Petr Kuneš and L.S. Shumilovskikh
> Paleoecological records inform conservation management in New Zealand [p.26-27]
Janet M. Wilmshurst and Jamie R. Wood
> Using the knowledge of past ecosystem turnover to inform restoration efforts: A case study from Nigeria [p.28-29]
Matthew A. Adeleye, S.E. Connor, S.G. Haberle and P.A. Adeonipekun
> Challenges to forest restoration in an era of unprecedented climate and wildfire activity in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests [p.30-31]
Philip E. Higuera, S. Crausbay, B. Shuman and K. Wolf
Internship report
> Sociological analysis of the PAGES network [p.32]
Chloé Dhaille, L. Ogorzelec and B. Vannière
Editorial
> Socio-ecological approaches to conservation [p.33]
Daniele Colombaroli and Evan Larson
Special Section
> Higher fuel loads and more fire follow removal of Indigenous cultural burning across southeast Australia [p.34-35]
Michela Mariani, S Connor, M.-S. Fletcher, A. Romano and S.Y. Maezumi
> Blending tree-ring fire-scar records and Indigenous memory in northern Minnesota, USA [p.36-37]
Lane B. Johnson, E.R. Larson, K.G. Gill and J. Savage
> Landscape conservation and the ancient technique of pastoral fire in the western Pyrenees [p.38-39]
Michael R. Coughlan, T.L. Gragson and D.S. Leigh
> Socio-ecological vulnerability and adaptation of southwestern Malagasy to changing environment and climate [p.40-41]
Estelle Razanatsoa and Lindsey Gillson
> Combining paleoecological and archaeological records to inform fire management and ecosystem conservation in Killarney National Park, Ireland [p.42-43]
Donna Hawthorne, D. Colombaroli and F.J.G. Mitchell
> Paleoscience–policy "commons": Connecting the past to a sustainable future in a human-dominated tropical biodiversity hotspot [p.44-45]
Charuta Kulkarni and Dhanya Bhaskar
> Future fire predictions in light of millennial fire regime variability in Corsica, France [p.46-47]
Marion Lestienne, C. Hély, I. Jouffroy-Bapicot, T. Curt and B. Vannière
> Transforming tree-ring research through collaborations with Indigenous peoples [p.48-49]
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, W. Spearing and L.D. Daniels
> Working with: The ethics and practices of engaging Indigenous peoples in scientific research [p.50-51]
Kayla M. de Freitas, G.A. Winter, T. A. Kennedy, A. Johnny and J. Mistry
Program News
> Phase 4 of the PAGES 2k Network: Hydroclimate of the Common Era [p.52]
> The second phase of the Cycle of Sea-Ice Dynamics in the Earth System (C-SIDE) working group [p.53]
> Q-MARE working group [p.54]
> Expanding PlioVAR to PlioMioVAR [p.55]
Workshop Reports
> Towards reliable proxy-based reconstructions: Community perspectives and criteria for the ACME database [p.56]
> Unraveling the complex relationship between solid-Earth deformation and ice-sheet change [p.57]
> An update on advances in paleoscience in the Carpathian-Balkan region [p.58]
> PAIGE: Chronologies for Polar Paleoclimate Archives – Kickoff conference of a new Italian–German partnership project [p.59]
> C-PEAT at COP26 [p.60]
> LandCover6k [p.61]
Data Stewardship
> Data stewardship projects underway [p.62]
> What can APIs do for you? [p.63]
This issue of Past Global Changes Magazine celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). PMIP started the same year that PAGES was formed and has been hugely influential in focusing the paleoclimate modeling and data communities on key aspects of past change and the link to future climate change. This issue presents the story of its formation, some of the key results and impact of the research, and a discussion of the very latest results and future initiatives.
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> Editorial: Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project [p.63]
Paul J. Valdes, P. Braconnot and K.J. Meissner
Science Highlights
> PMIP: Looking back to its first phase [p.64-65]
Sylvie Joussaume and Karl E. Taylor
> PMIP key dates and achievements over the last 30 years [p.66-67]
Pascale Braconnot, M. Kageyama, S.P. Harrison, B.L. Otto-Bliesner, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Willé, J.-Y. Peterschmitt and N. Caud
> The contributions of PMIP to the IPCC assessment reports [p.68-79]
Masa Kageyama, A. Abe-Ouchi, J. Annan, P. Braconnot, C. Brierley, J. Fidel Gonzalez-Rouco, J. Hargreaves, S.P. Harrison, S. Joussaume, D.J. Lunt, B. Otto-Bliesner, M. Rojas Corradi
> Paleoclimatic data syntheses from the terrestrial realm: History and prospects [p.70-71]
Patrick J. Bartlein and Thompson Webb III
> Simulating the Common Era: The Past2k working group of PMIP [p.72-73]
Johann H. Jungclaus, O. Bothe, E. Garcia-Bustamante, J.F. González-Rouco, R. Neukom and A. Schurer
> Simulating the mid-Holocene in PMIP [p.74-75]
Chris Brierley and Qiong Zhang
> The 8.2 kyr event: Benchmarking climate model sensitivity to ice-sheet melt [p.76-77]
Lauren J. Gregoire and Carrie Morrill
> New PMIP challenges: Simulations of deglaciations and abrupt Earth system changes [p.78-79]
Ruza F. Ivanovic, E. Capron and L.J. Gregoire
> Modeling the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum from PMIP1 to PMIP4 [p.80-81]
Masa Kageyama, A. Abe-Ouchi, T. Obase, G. Ramstein and P.J. Valdes
> The last glacial ocean: The challenge of comparing multiproxy data synthesis with climate simulations [p.82-83]
Lukas Jonkers, K. Rehfeld, M. Kageyama and M. Kucera
> PMIP contributions to understanding the deep ocean circulation of the Last Glacial Maximum [p.84-85]
Sam Sherriff-Tadano and Marlene Klockmann
> Mineral dust in PMIP simulations: A short review [p.86-87]
Fabrice Lambert and Samuel Albani
> PMIP-carbon: A model intercomparison effort to better understand past carbon cycle changes [p.88-89]
Nathaelle Bouttes, F. Lhardy, D.M. Roche and T. Mandonnet
> Towards a better understanding of the latest warm climate: The PMIP Last Interglacial Working Group [p.90-91]
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, P. Scussolini, E. Capron, M. Kageyama and A. Zhao
> PlioMIP: The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project [p.92-93]
Alan M. Haywood, H.J. Dowsett, J.C. Tindall, PlioMIP1 and PlioMIP2 participants
> DeepMIP: The Deep-Time Model Intercomparison Project [p.94-95]
Daniel J. Lunt, M. Huber, B.L. Otto-Bliesner, W.-L. Chan, D.K. Hutchinson, J.-B. Ladant, P. Morozova, I. Niezgodzki, S. Steinig, Z. Zhang and J. Zhu
> Paleomonsoon modeling within PMIP: Recent progress and future directions [p.96-97]
Jian Liu, L. Ning, M. Yan, W. Sun, K. Chen and Y. Qin
> Interannual-to-interdecadal variability in PMIP simulations at the local to global scale [p.98-99]
Kira Rehfeld and Josephine Brown
> PMIP Past to Future Working Group [p.100-101]
Julia C. Hargreaves
Program News
> PaleoEcoGen: Unlocking the power of ancient environmental DNA to understand past ecological trends [p.102]
> PEOPLE 3000 working group [p.103]
Workshop Reports
> Modeling long-term human–environment feedback loops during the Holocene [p.104]
> Socio-environmental histories and interdisciplinary perspectives on the resilience of the Andean tropical forests of Colombia [p.105]
> Past global changes as indicators for future changes and strategies for sustainability [p.106]
> Beyond paleoclimate ping pong [p.107]
This issue of Past Global Changes Magazine celebrates the 30th anniversary of the PAGES project. Since its formation in 1991, PAGES has been at the forefront of paleoscience research. Here we present both a retrospective look at the past 30 years, and also look to the future in the special section led by the PAGES Early-Career Network.
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Editorial
> For she's a jolly good fellow: Happy Birthday, PAGES! [p.3]
Hubertus Fischer, S. Fritz and M.N. Evans
Science Highlights
> A 30-year multi-proxy reconstruction of PAGES' history [p.4-6]
Thorsten Kiefer and Marie-France Loutre
> Past Global Changes: 30 years of paleoscience to help save the planet [p.7-9]
Hubertus Fischer, S. Fritz and A. Mix
> Looking forward [p.10-12]
Michael N. Evans, W. Tinner, Z. Jian, B. Vannière, S. Eggleston and M.-F. Loutre
> SynTRACE-21: Synthesis of Transient Climate Evolution of the last 21,000 years [p.13-15]
Zhengyu Liu, B.L. Otto-Bliesner, P.U. Clark, J. Lynch-Stieglitz and J.M. Russell
> Global climate goes regional, and vice versa: Reflecting on 14 years of the PAGES 2k Network [p.16-17]
Nerilie Abram, D. Kaufman, H. McGregor, B. Martrat, O. Bothe and H. Linderholm
> PALSEA: 13 years of ice-sheet and sea-level science [p.18-20]
Alessio Rovere and Andrea Dutton
> Fabulous interglacials: A timeline of the PIGS and QUIGS working groups [p.21-23]
Chronis Tzedakis, L. Menviel, E. Capron, B.L. Otto-Bliesner, J.F. McManus, D. Raynaud and E. Wolff
> Fire history of an inhabited Earth: Experiences from the PAGES Global Paleofire Working Group [p.24-26]
Boris Vannière, D. Colombaroli and M.J. Power
> Obituary: Govind Ballabh Pant (1945–2020) [p.27]
Rupa Kumar Kolli
> Memories ... [p.28-29]
Anne-Christine Clottu Vogel, S. Colman, M.-F. Loutre, M.N. Evans, H. Wanner, P. Francus, T. Meloth, L. von Gunten and A. Maldonado Castro
> Former co-chairs reminisce about their tenure [p.30-32]
Bob Wasson, T. Pedersen, J. Brigham-Grette, H. Wanner, H. Fischer and S. Fritz
Special section: The future of past global change research
Editorial
> Highlighting the future of past global change research [p.33]
Stella J. Alexandroff, A. Bonk, M.J. Mette and T. Trofimova
Science Highlights
> Pliocene sea level revisited: Is there more than meets the eye? [p.34-35]
Georgia R. Grant and Tim R. Naish
> Exploring novel ice-core proxies for paleoclimate reconstruction in the sub-Antarctic [p.36-37]
Amy C.F. King and Dieter R. Tetzner
> Long-term peatland dynamics and effects of peatland-mediated feedbacks on the climate system [p.38-39]
Nitin Chaudhary
> The enigma and complexity of landscape dynamics in Chinese deserts: From case studies to big data [p.40-41]
Peng Liang, H. Li, Y. Zhou, X. Fu, L. Mackenzie and D. Zhang
> Human activities disturb lake sediment records of past flood frequencies [p.42-43]
William Rapuc, P. Sabatier and F. Arnaud
> Climate and environmental changes in the Mt. Kenya region [p.44-45]
Christine A. Omuombo
> A window into the Anthropocene through lake-sediment records in central Chile [p.46-47]
Magdalena Fuentealba, C. Latorre, M. Frugone-Álvarez, P. Sarricolea and B. Valero-Garcés
> Archives of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: A coral point of view [p.48-49]
Allison E. Lawman, J.W. Partin and S.G. Dee
> Data-based evaluation of paleoclimate records from the terrestrial Indian region: Opportunities and gaps [p.50-51]
Nikita Kaushal, Y. Kulkarni, P. Srivastava, S. Rawat and S. Managave
> An approach to collaboration through horizon scanning in the field of sclerochronology [p.52-53]
Madelyn J. Mette, T. Trofimova, S.J. Alexandroff and E. Tray
Program News
> DiverseK – Integrating diverse knowledge systems for environmental policy [p.54]
> Exploring past human impacts over time and space [p.55]
Workshop Reports
> Glacial terminations: Processes and feedbacks [p.56]
> PMIP2020 Conference [p.57]
> Virtual Past Socio-Environmental Systems: An interdisciplinary ECR workshop [p.58]
Opinion
> Towards increased interoperability of paleoenvironmental observation data [p.59]
Historical climatology is the interdisciplinary research field that reconstructs past climates and weather and their societal impacts on the basis of written and physical records produced by people. This issue of Past Global Changes Magazine presents papers on the current state of research in several world regions, as well as on new methods and the analysis of new sources in the field. It is a product of the PAGES Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies (CRIAS) working group.
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Editorial
> Editorial: Recent results and new perspectives in historical climatology: An overview [p.35]
Chantal Camenisch, S. White, Q. Pei and H. Huhtamaa
Science Highlights
> Recent developments of historical climatology in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe [p.36-37]
Andrea Kiss, R. Brázdil, M. Barriendos, C. Camenisch and S. Enzi
> Historical climatology in Western and Northern Europe: State-of-the-art, typical documentary data and methods [p.38-39]
Chantal Camenisch, H. Huhtamaa, N. Maughan and C. Rohr
> Archives of societies and historical climatology in East and Southeast Asia [p.40-41]
Fiona Williamson and Qing Pei
> Historical climatology in Africa: A state of the art [p.42-43]
David J. Nash and Matthew J. Hannaford
> Attribution of historical societal impacts and adaptations to climate and extreme events: Integrating quantitative and qualitative perspectives [p.44-45]
Sam White and Qing Pei
> Flood hazard assessment from alluvial sediments: Data from sedimentology to place names [p.46-47]
Antony G. Brown, B. Pears, P. Toms, J. Carroll, J. Wood and R. Jones
> Surprising eastern perspectives: Historical climatology and Rus'ian narrative sources [p.48-49]
Adrian Jusupović and Martin Bauch
> Combining the archives of nature and society: Tree rings and tithes [p.50-51]
Heli Huhtamaa, S. Helama, L. Leijonhufvud and F. Charpentier Ljungqvist
> Winter freeze-up and summer break-up in Nunatsiavut, Canada, from 1770 to 1910 [p.52-53]
Marie-Michèle Ouellet-Bernier and Anne de Vernal
> Arab Islamic historical documents as a climatological source in the Maghreb [p.54-55]
Yassin Meklach
> The potential of written sources for a historical climatology of the Middle East during the Mamluk era [p.56-57]
Undine Ott
> A preliminary global inventory of historical documentary evidence related to climate since the 14th century [p.58-59]
Angela-Maria Burgdorf
Program News
> SISAL achievements and future initiatives [p.60] > Climate Variability Across Scales (CVAS): Phase Two [p.61] > The International Paleofire Network (IPN) [p.62] > The DEEPICE research and training network [p.63] > Early-career researchers' perceptions of PAGES working groups [p.64] > PAGES ECN develops activity clusters: A new structure to support global networking [p.65] > PAGES 2k Network community survey [p.66]
Workshop Report
Conservation policies for preserving biodiversity under ongoing climate change require historical data and hindcasting models to better understand modern processes and more accurately predict potential future changes. This PAGES magazine issue is multidisciplinary and aims to highlight possible contributions of paleodata to conservation initiatives, as these data contain a wealth of information about past climate changes in terms of trends, abruptness, and velocity, and on plants' diversity down to their infraspecific level.
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Editorial
> Editorial: Past plant diversity changes and future conservation issues [p.3]
Rachid Cheddadi, S. Báez, S. Normand, D. Payne and P. Taberlet
Science Highlights
> Past and future contexts for climate and water-cycle variability, and consequences for the biosphere [p.4-5]
Pascale Braconnot and Françoise Vimeux
> How the Asian subtropical area became evergreen since the Last Glacial Maximum [p.6-7]
Zhuo Zheng, K. Huang, Q. Wan and R. Cheddadi
> Past climate changes and the role of refugia in the temperate Northern Hemisphere [p.8-9]
Rachid Cheddadi and Keith D. Bennett
> Next generation sequencing, phylogeography, and paleoecology [p.10-11]
Gentile F. Ficetola and Pierre Taberlet
> Survival and spread of arctic plants in response to climate change: DNA-based evidence [p.12-13]
Inger G. Alsos, M.E. Edwards and C.L. Clarke
> Ancient DNA from lakes: Insights into plant response to past climate changes [p.14-15]
Laura Parducci
> Modeling past plant species' distributions in mountainous areas: A way to improve our knowledge of future climate change impacts? [p.16-17]
Louis François and Alain Hambuckers
> Past changes in species diversity: A view from the mountains [p.18-19]
Davnah Payne, C. Hoorn, C. Randin and S.G.A. Flantua
> Using paleoecology to inform restoration and conservation of endangered heathlands [p.20-21]
Cherié J. Dirk and Lindsey Gillson
> Mountain science poised to help ecotourism in Peruvian cloud forests [p.22-23]
Fausto O. Sarmiento, M.B. Bush, W. Church, P. VanValkenburgh, M. Oliva, E. Delgado, S. Fernandez and N. Rojas
> Columbus' footprint: Land-use change before and after European incursion in Hispaniola [p.24-25]
Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, H. Hooghiemstra, M.L.P. Hoogland, J. Pagán-Jiménez, B. van Geel, M.H. Field, M. Prins, T. Donders, E. Herrera Malatesta, J. Ulloa Hung, C.H. McMichael, W.D. Gosling and C.L. Hofman
Workshop Reports
> Relaunching the African Pollen Database: Abrupt change in climate and ecosystems [p.26] > Exploiting the SISALv2 database for evaluating climate processes [p.27] > Is the El Niño-Southern Oscillation changing? Lessons from the past [p.28] > Tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives [p.29] > Integrating documentary evidence into climate reconstruction and impact studies [p.30] > Floods in a warmer world: Insights from paleohydrology [p.31]
This issue of Past Global Changes Magazine highlights the paleoceanographic proxies and Earth system modeling studies used to reconstruct and understand changes in these processes over a range of climate states, from the Last Glacial Maximum 20,000 years ago to the warm climates of the early Cenozoic more than 55 million years ago, and the recent progress and ongoing challenges in reconstructing these changes, with an aim to inspire further research in these fields. It is a contribution to the PAGES OC3 working group.
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> Editorial: Old problems and new challenges in understanding past ocean circulation and carbon-cycle changes [p.47]
Julia Gottschalk, X. Zhang and A. Burke
Science Highlights
> Benthic foraminiferal stable carbon isotope constraints on deglacial ocean circulation and carbon-cycle changes [p.48-49]
Carlye Peterson, G. Gebbie, L.E. Lisiecki, J. Lynch-Stieglitz, D. Oppo, J. Muglia, J. Repschläger and A. Schmittner
> Millennial to centennial changes in deep-ocean ventilation during the last deglaciation [p.50-51]
Tianyu Chen and Laura F. Robinson
> Ice-age storage of respired carbon in the Pacific Ocean [p.52-53]
Allison W. Jacobel, R.F. Anderson, B.A.A. Hoogakker and S.L. Jaccard
> Revealing past ocean circulation with neodymium isotopes [p.54-55]
Patrick Blaser, M. Frank and T. van de Flierdt
> Pa/Th as a (paleo)circulation tracer: A North Atlantic perspective [p.56-57]
Laura F. Robinson, G.M. Henderson, H.C. Ng and J.F. McManus
> Boron in CaCO3 as a record of past seawater carbonate chemistry [p.58-59]
Michael J. Henehan and Hana Jurikova
> The deglacial rise in atmospheric CO2: A (not so) simple balance equation [p.60-61]
Katrin J. Meissner and Laurie Menviel
> Data constraints on ocean-carbon cycle feedbacks at the mid-Pleistocene transition [p.62-63]
Jesse R. Farmer, S.L. Goldstein, L.L. Haynes, B. Hönisch, J. Kim, L. Pena, M. Jaume-Seguí and M. Yehudai
> Modeling perspectives on the mid-Pleistocene transition [p.64-65]
Matteo Willeit and Andrey Ganopolski
> Long eccentricity cycles in oceanic carbon reservoir [p.66-67]
Pinxian Wang and Jun Tian
> The influence of circulation change on sedimentary records of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum [p.68-69]
Donald E. Penman and Sandra Kirtland Turner
Program News
> Arctic Cryosphere Change and Coastal Marine Ecosystems working group [p.70]
> Cycles of Sea-Ice Dynamics in the Earth System working group [p.71]
> Understanding long-term human-climate-ecosystem interactions for sustainability [p.72]
> Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies working group [p.73]
Workshop Reports
> Mapping past land use in Europe for climate modeling [p.74]
> Holocene land cover and land use in South and Southeast Asia for climate modeling [p.75]
> 4th Summer School on Speleothem Science (S4) [p.76]
> Peatland ecosystem services during the Anthropocene and beyond [p.77]
> Human paleobiogeography and the synchrony of social-ecological systems on Earth [p.78]
> European Association of Archaeologists 25 years: Beyond paradigms [p.79]
> Climatic and hydrological extremes: Linking the instrumental period of the last decades with the more distant past [p.80]
> Understanding volcanic impacts through time [p.81]
> How hot was the Holocene? [p.82]
> Past climate changes and human adaptation [p.83]
> Warm extremes: Marine Isotope Stage 5e and its relevance for the future [p.84]
> Big data: Challenges and solutions of archiving over 130,000 years of sea-level change [p.85]
> Understanding glacial-interglacial changes in Southern Ocean sea ice [p.86]
> Under the Southern Cross: 13th International Conference on Paleoceanography [p.87]
> Toward community resources for paleoclimate data assimilation, reanalysis, and proxy system modeling [p.88]
> Climatic modes of variability over the Holocene: Model-data synergies to improve future projections [p.89]
> Paleoscience Symposium: Paleoclimates and Paleoenvironments [p.90]
> Demystifying the grant writing process for early-career paleoscientists [p.91]
This issue of Past Global Changes Magazine, “Paleo Constraints on Sea-Level Rise”, highlights scientific advances made over the last decade of the PALSEA working group, as well as identifies new challenges for the sea-level, ice-sheet, and broader paleo communities. The included articles summarize our current understanding of sea-level and ice-sheet changes during past warm periods and the application of this knowledge to infer future sea-level hazard.
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> A decade of PALSEA: Advances and future aims [p.3]
Natasha L.M. Barlow, G.A. Milne and J.D. Shakun
Science Highlights
> Peak sea level during the warm Pliocene: Errors, limitations, and constraints [p.4-5]
Kenneth G. Miller, M.E. Raymo, J.V. Browning, Y. Rosenthal and J.D. Wright
> What do we know about Last Interglacial sea level? [p.6-7]
Andrea Dutton and Natasha L.M. Barlow
> Late Holocene sea level [p.8-9]
Robert L. Barnett, A.C. Kemp and W.R. Gehrels
> Sea-level databases [p.10-11]
Nicole S. Khan, F. Hibbert and A. Rovere
> Interglacial ice extents of the Greenland ice sheet [p.12-13]
Anders E. Carlson and Nicolaj K. Larsen
> On recovering Last Interglacial changes in the Antarctic ice sheet [p.14-15]
Louise C. Sime, A.E. Carlson and M. Holloway
> Advances in glacial isostatic adjustment modeling [p.16-17]
Glenn A. Milne, D. Al-Attar, P.L. Whitehouse, O. Crawford and R. Love
> The importance of dynamic topography for understanding past sea-level changes [p.18-19]
Jacqueline Austermann and Alessandro M. Forte
> Paleo ice-sheet modeling to constrain past sea level [p.20-21]
Bas de Boer, F. Colleoni, N.R. Golledge and R.M. DeConto
> Arctic warming and the Greenland ice sheet during the Last Interglacial [p.22-23]
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, M. Lofverstrom, P. Bakker and R. Feng
> The importance of sediment in sea-level change [p.24-25]
Ken L. Ferrier, W. van der Wal, G.A. Ruetenik and P. Stocchi
> Storms and extreme events: Insights from the historical and paleo record [p.26-27]
Simon E. Engelhart, J.E. Pilarczyk and A. Rovere
> Geological records of past sea-level changes as constraints for future projections [p.28-29]
Benjamin P. Horton, R.E. Kopp, A. Dutton and T.A. Shaw
Workshop Reports
> Climate variability in Antarctica and the Southern Hemisphere over the past 2000 years [p.30] > Understanding past changes in sea ice in the Southern Ocean [p.31] > Impacts of sea-level rise from past to present: iSLR18 [p.32] > Climate, ice sheets and sea level during past interglacial periods [p.33] > Abrupt changes, thresholds, and tipping points in Earth's history and future implications [p.34] > Trace element and isotope proxies in paleoceanography: Starting a new synergic effort around marine geochemical proxies [p.35] > Past plant diversity changes and mountain tree species conservation [p.36] > Archaeology that counts: International colloqium on digital archaeology [p.37] > Co-designed paleo experiments on land-cover and land-use change impacts [p.38] > Global soils and sediment transfers in the Anthropocene: Database meeting [p.39] > Analyses of the SISAL database: Regional patterns in isotope signatures [p.40] > A joint effort to bring together global, regional modeling and proxy communities [p.41] > Methods and interdisciplinary communication in historical climatology [p.42]
Obituary
> Bruno Messerli (1931-2019) [p.43]
This issue of Past Global Changes Magazine "Building and Harnessing Open Paleodata" showcases the ongoing growth of a rich variety of openly available, globally distributed paleodata. It highlights new scientific, software, funding, and outreach initiatives that harness these open-data resources. Open-data systems are fueling new scientific frontiers, empowering early-career scientists, and enabling the intelligent reuse of data, while encouraging the stewardship of valued data assets. The ultimate goal is to power the next generation of scientists and scientific discovery with an open architecture of scientific data as complex, deep, and interlinked as the Earth system itself.
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SSC Editorial
> New data-availability procedures echo PAGES’ long-standing commitment [p.48]
PAGES Scientific Steering Committee
Editorial
> Building and harnessing open paleodata [p.49]
John W. Williams, D.S. Kaufman, A. Newton and L. von Gunten
Science Highlights
> Building open data: Data stewards and community-curated data resources [p.50-51]
John W. Williams, D.S. Kaufman, A. Newton and L. von Gunten
> Open data and the publishing landscape [p.52-53]
Alicia J. Newton
> Open-data practices and challenges among early-career paleo-researchers [p.54-55]
Alexander Koch, K.C. Glover, B. Zambri, E.K. Thomas, X. Benito and J.Z. Yang
> A funder's approach to more open data and better data management [p.56-57]
Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures & Data Management Project
> New advances at NOAA’s World Data Service for Paleoclimatology – Promoting the FAIR principles [p.58]
Wendy Gross, C. Morrill and E. Wahl
> PANGAEA - Data publisher for Earth & environmental sciences [p.59]
Michael Diepenbroek
> Lessons learned from 25 years of PMIP model-data distribution [p.60-61]
Jean-Yves Peterschmitt, P. Braconnot and M. Kageyama
> LinkedEarth: supporting paleoclimate data standards and crowd curation [p.62-63]
Julien Emile-Geay, D. Khider, N.P. McKay, Y. Gil, D. Garijo and V. Ratnakar
> Constituent databases and data stewards in the Neotoma Paleoecology Database: History, growth, and new directions [p.64-65]
Eric C. Grimm, J.L. Blois, T. Giesecke, R.W. Graham, A.J. Smit and J.W. Williams
> Wrangling data from short Antarctic ice cores [p.66-67]
Barbara Stenni and Elizabeth R. Thomas
> Paleodata for and from archaeology [p.68-69]
Timothy A. Kohler, P.I. Buckland, K.W. Kintigh, R.K. Bocinsky, A. Brin et al.
> Automated extraction of spatiotemporal geoscientific data from the literature using GeoDeepDive [p.70]
Jeremiah Marsicek, S. Goring, S. Marcott, S. Meyers, S. Peters, I. Ross et al.
> Linked Paleo Data: A resource for open, reproducible, and efficient paleoclimatology [p.71]
Nicholas P. McKay and Julien Emile-Geay
> CSciBox: Artificial intelligence for age-depth modeling [p.72]
Elizabeth Bradley, T.H. Nelson and L. Rassbach de Vesine
> Accelerating progress in proxy-model synthesis using open standards [p.73]
Gregory Hakim, S. Dee, J. Emile-Geay, N. McKay and K. Rehfeld
> Outreach and educational opportunities created by open-data resources [p.74-75]
Amy Myrbo, S. Loeffler, A.L.C. Shinneman and R. McEwan
> Forecasting long-term ecological dynamics using open paleodata [p.76]
Jason S. McLachlan and the PalEON Project
> Open-access data is uncovering past responses of biodiversity to global environmental change [p.77]
Damien A. Fordham and David Nogues-Bravo
> EarthLife Consortium: Supporting digital paleobiology [p.78-79]
Mark D. Uhen, S. Goring, J. Jenkins and J.W. Williams
Program News
> Advice for early-career researchers: A summary from the AMQUA/CANQUA student mixer [p.80-81] > Quaternary studies in Africa: a perspective from early-career researchers [p.82]
Workshop Reports
> The African Quaternary: environments, ecology and humans [p.83] > Continental archives of Past Global Changes: from Quaternary to Anthropocene [p.84] > An integrated proxy and simulation data initiative for the Holocene and the last deglaciation [p.85] > Identifying data gaps and potential synergies in forest dynamics research [p.86] > Assessing the links between resilience, disturbance and functional traits in paleoecological datasets [p.87] > African fire histories and fire ecologies [p.88] > DiverseK: integrating paleoecology, traditional knowledge and stakeholders [p.89] > European land-use at 6000 BP: from on-site data to the large-scale view [p.90] > New research directions for the PAGES C-PEAT working group [p.91] > The role of dust in climate change: A biogeochemistry perspective [p.92] > Ocean circulation and carbon cycling during the last deglaciation: global synthesis [p.93] > Increasing social complexity, climate change, and why societies might fail to cope [p.94] > Holocene abrupt climatic events and the environmental effects [p.95]