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This paper stems from the international workshop ‘Geohistorical perspectives on functional connectivity patterns’ (Sesimbra, Portugal—25 May 2023) co-organized by Q-MARE (a working group of PAGES), International Council for Exploration of the Sea, and the COST Action CA19107 Unifying Approaches to Marine Connectivity for Improved Resource Management for the Seas (SEA-UNICORN), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).

The collation and analysis of the PlioVAR data are an outcome of the working group Pliocene Climate Variability over glacial–interglacial timescales, as sponsored by Past Global Change (PAGES). We acknowledge PAGES for their financial support to workshops and discussions and thank all of the PlioVAR members who created, synthesised, reviewed, and analysed the proxy data to generate the PlioVAR data. 

We thank all SISAL members who contributed their data to this project and were available to provide additional information where necessary.

This study was conducted by SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and Analysis), a working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project. In this framework, we received financial support from the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The design and construction of the SISALv3 database were financially supported by a PAGES Data Stewardship Scholarship to Franziska A. Lechleitner and Nikita Kaushal (grant no. DSS-108). We also received funding from PAGES, the Minerva Stiftung (grant no. 3063000253), and the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel) to support the organization of a workshop to kick-start the initiative.

This research is part of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) PalEOclimate and the Peopling of the Earth (PEOPLE3K) network, which in turn received support from the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 
 

AS acknowledges support from the German Research Foundation (DFG, SE 2802/1-1) and the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, grant no. 2018-01272). This research contributes to the DiverseK (PAGES Working Group) initiative.

This research benefited from the participation of the authors in the Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project. 

This paper also benefitted from discussion facilitated by the PAGES funded Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) working group

This study was also undertaken by J.F., E.R., and D.B. as part of PEOPLE 3000, a working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project, which in turn received support from the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

Preprint. Discussion started: 5 March 2024

As this study includes data complied by SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and Analysis), we thank the Pages2k and the Iso2k network, working groups of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project. We thank all initial authors that provided model simulation data, proxy record data and those researchers who compiled the proxy record databases.

This study emerged during the PAGES-supported Global Paleofire Working Group 2 workshop “Fire history baselines by biome” held in September 2016 at Château de la Tour, Beguey (Bordeaux, France) led by A.-L. D. and Tim Brücher.