How will different landscapes on Earth react on future climate change?

It is important to find out about future climate change (especially by reconstructing the past), but I think it is even more important for the adaption to future changes if we know how the landscapes we are living in will react on it and how sensitive what kind of landscape is to climate change. Landscape means the natural or semi-natural area where people are living and which can be affected by direct and indirect changes in the hydrological and geomorphological system, e.g. (soil)erosion, vegetation loss or gain, desertification and so on, which all needs to be looked at in a holistic way, subordinated over and including different parts of earth system sciences considering various scales in time and space. The best way to find out about the future then is to look into the past and interpret and combine it with modeling of present landscape processes in different climate regimes. Then we might get a glance on how we have to or can adapt to different future perspectives and climate change however it will be, preserving human’s livelihoods.

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