Data from: Fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet
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 circ...
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ftdans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:84808 2023-07-02T03:31:01+02:00 Data from: Fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet Willerslev, Eske Davison, John Moora, Mari Zobel, Martin Coissac, Eric Edwards, Mary E. Lorenzen, Eline D. Vestergård, Mette Gussarova, Galina Haile, James Craine, Joseph Bergmann, Gaddy Gielly, Ludovic Boessenkool, Sanne Epp, Laura S. Pearman, Peter B. Cheddadi, Rachid Murray, David Bråthen, Karri Anne Yoccoz, Nigel Binney, Heather Cruaud, Corinne Wincker, Patrick Goslar, Tomasz Alsos, Inger Greve Bellemain, Eva Brysting, Anne Krag Elven, Reidar Sønstebø, Jørn Henrik Murton, Julian Sher, Andrei Rasmussen, Morten Rønn, Regin Mourier, Tobias Cooper, Alan Austin, Jeremy Möller, Per Froese, Duane Zazula, Grant Pompanon, François Rioux, Delphine Niderkorn, Vincent Tikhonov, Alexei Savvinov, Grigoriy Roberts, Richard G. MacPhee, Ross D. E. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Kjær, Kurt H. Orlando, Ludovic Brochmann, Christian Taberlet, Pierre 2014-02-06T19:32:28.000+01:00 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-bp-gaii https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:84808 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/2 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/3 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/4 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/5 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/6 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/7 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/8 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/9 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/10 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/11 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/12 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/13 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/14 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/15 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/16 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/17 doi:10.1038/nature12921 PMID:24499916 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-bp-gaii doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5 https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:84808 OPEN_ACCESS: The data are archived in Easy, they are accessible elsewhere through the DOI https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf Life sciences medicine and health care 2014 ftdans https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/110.5061/dryad.ph8s5/210.5061/dryad.ph8s5/310.5061/dryad.ph8s5/410.5061/dryad.ph8s5/510.5061/dryad.ph8s5/610.5061/dryad.ph8s5/710.5061/dryad.ph8s5/810.5061/dryad.ph8s5/910.5061/dryad.ph8s5/1010.5061/dryad.ph8s5/1110.506 2023-06-13T13:11:29Z 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 additionally explore nematode diversity as a proxy for modelling vegetation cover and soil quality, and diets of herbivorous megafaunal mammals, many of which became extinct around 10 kyr BP (before present). For much of the period investigated, arctic vegetation consisted of dry steppe tundra dominated by forbs (non-graminoid herbaceous vascular plants). During the Last Glacial Maximum (25–15 kyr BP), diversity declined markedly, although forbs remained dominant. Much changed after 10 kyr BP, with the appearance of moist tundra dominated by woody plants and graminoids. Our analyses indicate that both graminoids and forbs would have featured in megafaunal diets. As such our findings question the predominance of a late Quaternary graminoid-dominated arctic “mammoth steppe”. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Tundra Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): EASY (KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) Arctic Science Bulletin |
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Life sciences medicine and health care Willerslev, Eske Davison, John Moora, Mari Zobel, Martin Coissac, Eric Edwards, Mary E. Lorenzen, Eline D. Vestergård, Mette Gussarova, Galina Haile, James Craine, Joseph Bergmann, Gaddy Gielly, Ludovic Boessenkool, Sanne Epp, Laura S. Pearman, Peter B. Cheddadi, Rachid Murray, David Bråthen, Karri Anne Yoccoz, Nigel Binney, Heather Cruaud, Corinne Wincker, Patrick Goslar, Tomasz Alsos, Inger Greve Bellemain, Eva Brysting, Anne Krag Elven, Reidar Sønstebø, Jørn Henrik Murton, Julian Sher, Andrei Rasmussen, Morten Rønn, Regin Mourier, Tobias Cooper, Alan Austin, Jeremy Möller, Per Froese, Duane Zazula, Grant Pompanon, François Rioux, Delphine Niderkorn, Vincent Tikhonov, Alexei Savvinov, Grigoriy Roberts, Richard G. MacPhee, Ross D. E. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Kjær, Kurt H. Orlando, Ludovic Brochmann, Christian Taberlet, Pierre Data from: Fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet |
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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 additionally explore nematode diversity as a proxy for modelling vegetation cover and soil quality, and diets of herbivorous megafaunal mammals, many of which became extinct around 10 kyr BP (before present). For much of the period investigated, arctic vegetation consisted of dry steppe tundra dominated by forbs (non-graminoid herbaceous vascular plants). During the Last Glacial Maximum (25–15 kyr BP), diversity declined markedly, although forbs remained dominant. Much changed after 10 kyr BP, with the appearance of moist tundra dominated by woody plants and graminoids. Our analyses indicate that both graminoids and forbs would have featured in megafaunal diets. As such our findings question the predominance of a late Quaternary graminoid-dominated arctic “mammoth steppe”. |
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Willerslev, Eske Davison, John Moora, Mari Zobel, Martin Coissac, Eric Edwards, Mary E. Lorenzen, Eline D. Vestergård, Mette Gussarova, Galina Haile, James Craine, Joseph Bergmann, Gaddy Gielly, Ludovic Boessenkool, Sanne Epp, Laura S. Pearman, Peter B. Cheddadi, Rachid Murray, David Bråthen, Karri Anne Yoccoz, Nigel Binney, Heather Cruaud, Corinne Wincker, Patrick Goslar, Tomasz Alsos, Inger Greve Bellemain, Eva Brysting, Anne Krag Elven, Reidar Sønstebø, Jørn Henrik Murton, Julian Sher, Andrei Rasmussen, Morten Rønn, Regin Mourier, Tobias Cooper, Alan Austin, Jeremy Möller, Per Froese, Duane Zazula, Grant Pompanon, François Rioux, Delphine Niderkorn, Vincent Tikhonov, Alexei Savvinov, Grigoriy Roberts, Richard G. MacPhee, Ross D. E. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Kjær, Kurt H. Orlando, Ludovic Brochmann, Christian Taberlet, Pierre |
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Willerslev, Eske Davison, John Moora, Mari Zobel, Martin Coissac, Eric Edwards, Mary E. Lorenzen, Eline D. Vestergård, Mette Gussarova, Galina Haile, James Craine, Joseph Bergmann, Gaddy Gielly, Ludovic Boessenkool, Sanne Epp, Laura S. Pearman, Peter B. Cheddadi, Rachid Murray, David Bråthen, Karri Anne Yoccoz, Nigel Binney, Heather Cruaud, Corinne Wincker, Patrick Goslar, Tomasz Alsos, Inger Greve Bellemain, Eva Brysting, Anne Krag Elven, Reidar Sønstebø, Jørn Henrik Murton, Julian Sher, Andrei Rasmussen, Morten Rønn, Regin Mourier, Tobias Cooper, Alan Austin, Jeremy Möller, Per Froese, Duane Zazula, Grant Pompanon, François Rioux, Delphine Niderkorn, Vincent Tikhonov, Alexei Savvinov, Grigoriy Roberts, Richard G. MacPhee, Ross D. E. Gilbert, M. Thomas P. Kjær, Kurt H. Orlando, Ludovic Brochmann, Christian Taberlet, Pierre |
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Data from: Fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet |
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Data from: Fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet |
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data from: fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet |
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