Environmental records of climate change and human impacts in mountain regions
Mountainous areas of the world are often justifiably famous for their physiographical, biological and cultural diversity. However, there remain many uncertainties over the precise role that environmental change has played in the development in these regions, due in part to the general lack of archival records and the rapid-scale shifts of many climatic processes. Under the right conditions, however, higher elevation water bodies can provide sensitive, high-resolution records of past environmental change, despite challenges in terms of physiography, sedimentology and accessibility.

This session aims to bring together researchers working on high-resolution montane lake sequences and other upland depositional environments, with a diversity of backgrounds and approaches, in order to review our understanding of both the potential and challenges of this area of palaeolimnology and to stimulate inter-disciplinary discussion. We would particularly like to encourage those researchers working in less well-represented mountain regions of the globe and those working collaboratively in all aspects of this field.