PART I – CAN WE DRAW A ROBUT PICTURE OF LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM CLIMATE CONDITIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA?

1- Moisture pattern during the Last Glacial Maximum in South America
Florence Sylvestre

2- Orbital and millennial-scale precipitation changes in Brazil from speleothem records
Francisco W. Cruz, Xianfeng Wang, Augusto Auler, Mathias Vuille, Stephen J. Burns, Lawrence R. Edwards, Ivo Karmann and Hai Cheng

3- Chronologies of the Last Glacial Maximum and its Termination in the Andes (~10-55�S) based on Surface Exposure Dating
Roland Zech, Jacqueline Smith and Michael Kaplan

4- Vegetation and fire at the Last Glacial Maximum in tropical South America
Francis E Mayle, Michael J. Burn, Mitchell Power and Dunia Urrego

5- Re-evaluation of climate change in Lowland Central America during the Last Glacial Maximum using new sediment cores from Lake Pet�n Itz�, Guatemala
Mark B. Bush, Alexander Y. Correa-Metrio, David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Daniel Ariztegui, Andreas D. Mueller, Jason H. Curtis, Dustin A. Grzesik, Catherine Burton and Adrian Gilli

6- Glacial to Holocene paleoceanographic and continental paleoclimate reconstructions based on ODP site 1233/GeoB 3313 off southern Chile
Frank Lamy and J�rome Kaiser

PART II – THE HIGH LATITUDES-TROPICS AND TROPICS-TROPICS TELECONNECIONS OVER THE LAST DEGLACIATION AND LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM

7- Teleconnections into South America from the tropics and extratropics on interannual and intraseasonal timescales
Alice M. Grimm and Tercio Ambrizzi

8- South American climate variability and change: remote and regional forcing processes
Kerry H Cook

9- Sensitivity of South American Tropical climateto Last Glacial Maximum boundary conditions: focus on teleconnections with Tropics and Extratropics
Myriam Khodri, Masa Kageyama and Didier M. Roche

10- Similarities and discrepancies between Andean ice cores over the last deglaciation: climate implications
Fran�oise Vimeux

PART III – CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HOLOCENE CLIMATE. FOCUS ON GLOBAL EVENTS: ARE THEY WIDESPREAD, COMPARABLE AND SYNCHRONEOUS IN SOUTH AMERICA?

11- Mid-Holocene climate of tropical South America: a model-data approach
Pedro L. Silva Dias, Bruno Turcq, Maria Assun��o F. Silva Dias, Pascale Braconnot and Tatiana Jorgetti

12- Millennial-scale ecological changes in tropical South America since the Last Glacial Maximum
Dunia H. Urrego, Mark B. Bush, Miles R. Silman, Alexander Correa-Metrio, Maria P. Ledru, Francis Mayle, Gina Panuado and Bryang G. Valencia

13- The nature and origin of decadal to millennial scale climate varibility in the southern tropics of South America: the Holocene record of lago Umayo, Peru
Paul A Baker, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Stephen J. Burns, Erik Ekdahl and Catherine A. Rigsby

14- Hydrological variability in South America below the tropic of Capricorn (Pampas and eastern Patagonia, Argentina) during the last 13.0 ka
Eduardo L. Piovano, Daniel Ariztegui, Franciso C�rdoba, Marcela Cioccale and Florence Sylvestre

15- Climate change in southern South America during the last two millennia
Christopher M. Moy, Patricio I. Moreno, Robert B. Dunbar, Michael R. Kaplan, Jean-Pierre Francois, Ricardo Villalba and Torsthen Haberzettl

16- The Little Ice Age in southern South America: proxy and model based evidence
Inka Meyer and Sebastian Wagner