Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet
@article{Willerslev2014FiftyTY, title={Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet}, author={E. Willerslev and J. Davison and M. Moora and M. Zobel and E. Coissac and M. Edwards and E. Lorenzen and Mette Vesterg{\aa}rd and Galina Gussarova and J. Haile and J. Craine and L. Gielly and S. Boessenkool and L. Epp and P. Pearman and R. Cheddadi and D. Murray and K. A. Br{\aa}then and N. Yoccoz and H. Binney and C. Cruaud and P. Wincker and T. Goslar and I. Alsos and E. Bellemain and A. Brysting and R. Elven and J{\o}rn Henrik S{\o}nsteb{\o} and J. Murton and A. Sher and M. Rasmussen and R. R{\o}nn and T. Mourier and A. Cooper and Jeremy R. Austin and P. M{\"o}ller and D. Froese and Grant Zazula and F. Pompanon and D. Rioux and V. Niderkorn and A. Tikhonov and G. Savvinov and R. Roberts and R. Macphee and M. Gilbert and K. Kj{\ae}r and L. Orlando and C. Brochmann and P. Taberlet}, journal={Nature}, year={2014}, volume={506}, pages={47-51} }
Although it is generally agreed that the Arctic flora is among the youngest and least diverse on Earth, the processes that shaped it are poorly understood. Here we present 50 thousand years (kyr) of Arctic vegetation history, derived from the first large-scale ancient DNA metabarcoding study of circumpolar plant diversity. For this interval we also explore nematode diversity as a proxy for modelling vegetation cover and soil quality, and diets of herbivorous megafaunal mammals, many of which… CONTINUE READING
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