Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics
International audience Abstract During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood 1–8 . Here we report a large-scale environmental DNA metagenomic study of ancient plant and...
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International audience Abstract During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood 1–8 . Here we report a large-scale environmental DNA metagenomic study of ancient plant and mammal communities, analysing 535 permafrost and lake sediment samples from across the Arctic spanning the past 50,000 years. Furthermore, we present 1,541 contemporary plant genome assemblies that were generated as reference sequences. Our study provides several insights into the long-term dynamics of the Arctic biota at the circumpolar and regional scales. Our key findings include: (1) a relatively homogeneous steppe–tundra flora dominated the Arctic during the Last Glacial Maximum, followed by regional divergence of vegetation during the Holocene epoch; (2) certain grazing animals consistently co-occurred in space and time; (3) humans appear to have been a minor factor in driving animal distributions; (4) higher effective precipitation, as well as an increase in the proportion of wetland plants, show negative effects on animal diversity; (5) the persistence of the steppe–tundra vegetation in northern Siberia enabled the late survival of several now-extinct megafauna species, including the woolly mammoth until 3.9 ± 0.2 thousand years ago (ka) and the woolly rhinoceros until 9.8 ± 0.2 ka; and (6) phylogenetic analysis of mammoth environmental DNA reveals a previously unsampled mitochondrial lineage. Our findings highlight the power of ancient environmental metagenomics analyses to advance understanding of population histories and long-term ecological dynamics. |
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ftceafr:oai:HAL:hal-03431961v1 2024-09-15T18:30:08+00:00 Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics Wang, Yucheng Pedersen, Mikkel Winther Alsos, Inger Greve de Sanctis, Bianca Racimo, Fernando Prohaska, Ana Coissac, Eric Owens, Hannah Lois Merkel, Marie Kristine Føreid Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio Rouillard, Alexandra Lammers, Youri Alberti, Adriana Denoeud, France Money, Daniel Ruter, Anthony Mccoll, Hugh Larsen, Nicolaj Krog Cherezova, Anna Edwards, Mary Fedorov, Grigory Haile, James Vinner, Lasse Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand Beilman, David Bjørk, Anders Cao, Jialu Dockter, Christoph Esdale, Julie Gusarova, Galina Kjeldsen, Kristian Mangerud, Jan Rasic, Jeffrey Skadhauge, Birgitte Svendsen, John Inge Tikhonov, Alexei Wincker, Patrick Xing, Yingchun Zhang, Yubin Froese, Duane Rahbek, Carsten Nogues, David Bravo Holden, Philip Edwards, Neil Durbin, Richard Meltzer, David Kjær, Kurt Möller, Per Willerslev, Eske Globe Institute Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH) Génomique métabolique (UMR 8030) Genoscope - Centre national de séquençage Evry (GENOSCOPE) Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2021-10-28 https://hal.science/hal-03431961 https://hal.science/hal-03431961/document https://hal.science/hal-03431961/file/s41586-021-04016-x%281%29.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x hal-03431961 https://hal.science/hal-03431961 https://hal.science/hal-03431961/document https://hal.science/hal-03431961/file/s41586-021-04016-x%281%29.pdf doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0028-0836 EISSN: 1476-4687 Nature https://hal.science/hal-03431961 Nature, 2021, 598 (7882), pp.634-640. ⟨10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x⟩ [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftceafr https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x 2024-07-22T13:13:44Z International audience Abstract During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood 1–8 . Here we report a large-scale environmental DNA metagenomic study of ancient plant and mammal communities, analysing 535 permafrost and lake sediment samples from across the Arctic spanning the past 50,000 years. Furthermore, we present 1,541 contemporary plant genome assemblies that were generated as reference sequences. Our study provides several insights into the long-term dynamics of the Arctic biota at the circumpolar and regional scales. Our key findings include: (1) a relatively homogeneous steppe–tundra flora dominated the Arctic during the Last Glacial Maximum, followed by regional divergence of vegetation during the Holocene epoch; (2) certain grazing animals consistently co-occurred in space and time; (3) humans appear to have been a minor factor in driving animal distributions; (4) higher effective precipitation, as well as an increase in the proportion of wetland plants, show negative effects on animal diversity; (5) the persistence of the steppe–tundra vegetation in northern Siberia enabled the late survival of several now-extinct megafauna species, including the woolly mammoth until 3.9 ± 0.2 thousand years ago (ka) and the woolly rhinoceros until 9.8 ± 0.2 ka; and (6) phylogenetic analysis of mammoth environmental DNA reveals a previously unsampled mitochondrial lineage. Our findings highlight the power of ancient environmental metagenomics analyses to advance understanding of population histories and long-term ecological dynamics. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost Tundra Siberia HAL-CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) Nature 600 7887 86 92 |