Past treeline dynamics at Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Archipelago) since the last interglacial inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA

• Main Authors: Zimmermann, Heike, Raschke, Elena, Epp, Laura, Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen, Schwamborn, Georg, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Herzschuh, Ulrike
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Krest; Yuryakh; laptev; permafrost; taiga
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/50529/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.126f5997-3e5e-4117-93f6-f437199d9034

Permafrost deposits at Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island are natural archives dating back to the Eemian (Krest Yuryakh Suite, ~125 kyr BP) with excellent conditions to preserve ancient DNA. The today treeless island is located between the Laptev and East Siberian Seas, but during the last glacial it w...