Postglacial viability and colonization in North America's ice-free corridor.

• Main Authors: Pedersen, Mikkel W, Ruter, Anthony, Schweger, Charles, Friebe, Harvey, Staff, Richard A, Kjeldsen, Kristian K, Mendoza, Marie LZ, Beaudoin, Alwynne B, Zutter, Cynthia, Larsen, Nicolaj K, Potter, Ben A, Nielsen, Rasmus, Rainville, Rebecca A, Orlando, Ludovic, Meltzer, David J, Kjær, Kurt H, Willerslev, Eske
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Animals; Bison; Deer; Humans; Pollen; DNA; Animal Migration; Genomics; Ice Cover; Geologic Sediments; Models; Theoretical; Fossils; History; Ancient; North America; Siberia; Radiometric Dating; Mammoths; Human Migration; Forests; Climate Action; General Science & Technology; The Corridor; Beringia
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76h9t39c

During the Last Glacial Maximum, continental ice sheets isolated Beringia (northeast Siberia and northwest North America) from unglaciated North America. By around 15 to 14 thousand calibrated radiocarbon years before present (cal. kyr bp), glacial retreat opened an approximately 1,500-km-long corri...