Tracing Siberian treeline history with sedimentary ancient DNA: plant metabarcoding and haplotype analyses of Larix species

• Main Authors: Epp, Laura S., Zimmermann, Heike, Heinecke, Liv, Kruse, Stefan, Kath, Nadja, Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen, Pestryakova, Luidmila, Herzschuh, Ulrike
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Taymyr; Climate change; permafrost; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47062/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.3f3eed5b-0d5b-43e1-9f24-d4f001dee2a1

The Arctic is experiencing particularly high temperature increases, which will potentially cause major ecosystem changes, such as a northward expansion of boreal forests. About half of the global circum-arctic boreal treeline is located in Siberia, where it is formed by one of three species of larch...