Assessing landscape response to modern climate change: how much do we know?
Climate change is affecting nearly all terrestrial and nearshore environments. In this presentation, we explored the ongoing challenges of detecting and measuring climate-driven physical landscape responses to modern warming and shifting hydrology. These include limited data records, land use and seismicity that obscure climate signals, biases in data resolution, and signal loss in sedimentary systems. Despite these obstacles, researchers continue to find opportunities through paleo and historical records, careful site selection, and transparent reporting of null results. Improving attribution of landscape changes to climate rather than other factors strengthens our ability to predict and manage impacts on health, infrastructure, resource security, and ecosystems.
