Lakes and wetlands are highly sensitive to climatic change, and despite their small oveall area, they play an important role in the global carbon cycle. As global temperatures rise, there is a growing need to understand how physical and biogeochemical processes in these systems respond to warming. Sedimentary archives from these environments offer high-resolution records of past continental climate variability and ecological changes.

This session invites contributions that advance our understanding of past climate dynamics through paleolimnological and paleoclimatic reconstructions. We especially welcome studies from understudied regions like the global South and those using innovative proxies, analytical tools, or novel methods to improve the interpretation of freshwater sedimentary records. By bringing together diverse case studies and novel approaches, this session aims to highlight advances in proxy development and their use in reconstructing past environmental change.