A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. ...
Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago1 had climates resembling those forecasted under future warming2. Palaeoclimatic records show strong polar amplification with mean annual temperatures of 11-19 °C above contemporary values3,4. The biological communities inhabitin...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.92544 2024-02-27T08:37:41+00:00 A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. ... Kjær, Kurt H Winther Pedersen, Mikkel De Sanctis, Bianca De Cahsan, Binia Korneliussen, Thorfinn S Michelsen, Christian S Sand, Karina K Jelavić, Stanislav Ruter, Anthony H Schmidt, Astrid MA Kjeldsen, Kristian K Tesakov, Alexey S Snowball, Ian Gosse, John C Alsos, Inger G Wang, Yucheng Dockter, Christoph Rasmussen, Magnus Jørgensen, Morten E Skadhauge, Birgitte Prohaska, Ana Kristensen, Jeppe Å Bjerager, Morten Allentoft, Morten E Coissac, Eric PhyloNorway Consortium Rouillard, Alexandra Simakova, Alexandra Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio Bowler, Chris Macias-Fauria, Marc Vinner, Lasse Welch, John J Hidy, Alan J Sikora, Martin Collins, Matthew J Durbin, Richard Larsen, Nicolaj K Willerslev, Eske 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.92544 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/345115 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC open.access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 DNA, Environmental Ecosystem Ecology FOS Biological sciences Fossils Greenland article-journal ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle Article 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.92544 2024-02-01T15:02:59Z Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago1 had climates resembling those forecasted under future warming2. Palaeoclimatic records show strong polar amplification with mean annual temperatures of 11-19 °C above contemporary values3,4. The biological communities inhabiting the Arctic during this time remain poorly known because fossils are rare5. Here we report an ancient environmental DNA6 (eDNA) record describing the rich plant and animal assemblages of the Kap København Formation in North Greenland, dated to around two million years ago. The record shows an open boreal forest ecosystem with mixed vegetation of poplar, birch and thuja trees, as well as a variety of Arctic and boreal shrubs and herbs, many of which had not previously been detected at the site from macrofossil and pollen records. The DNA record confirms the presence of hare and mitochondrial DNA from animals including mastodons, reindeer, rodents and geese, all ancestral to their present-day and late Pleistocene ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Kap København North Greenland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Greenland Kap ENVELOPE(23.567,23.567,65.533,65.533) Kap København ENVELOPE(-22.200,-22.200,82.400,82.400) |
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DNA, Environmental Ecosystem Ecology FOS Biological sciences Fossils Greenland Kjær, Kurt H Winther Pedersen, Mikkel De Sanctis, Bianca De Cahsan, Binia Korneliussen, Thorfinn S Michelsen, Christian S Sand, Karina K Jelavić, Stanislav Ruter, Anthony H Schmidt, Astrid MA Kjeldsen, Kristian K Tesakov, Alexey S Snowball, Ian Gosse, John C Alsos, Inger G Wang, Yucheng Dockter, Christoph Rasmussen, Magnus Jørgensen, Morten E Skadhauge, Birgitte Prohaska, Ana Kristensen, Jeppe Å Bjerager, Morten Allentoft, Morten E Coissac, Eric PhyloNorway Consortium Rouillard, Alexandra Simakova, Alexandra Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio Bowler, Chris Macias-Fauria, Marc Vinner, Lasse Welch, John J Hidy, Alan J Sikora, Martin Collins, Matthew J Durbin, Richard Larsen, Nicolaj K Willerslev, Eske A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. ... |
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Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago1 had climates resembling those forecasted under future warming2. Palaeoclimatic records show strong polar amplification with mean annual temperatures of 11-19 °C above contemporary values3,4. The biological communities inhabiting the Arctic during this time remain poorly known because fossils are rare5. Here we report an ancient environmental DNA6 (eDNA) record describing the rich plant and animal assemblages of the Kap København Formation in North Greenland, dated to around two million years ago. The record shows an open boreal forest ecosystem with mixed vegetation of poplar, birch and thuja trees, as well as a variety of Arctic and boreal shrubs and herbs, many of which had not previously been detected at the site from macrofossil and pollen records. The DNA record confirms the presence of hare and mitochondrial DNA from animals including mastodons, reindeer, rodents and geese, all ancestral to their present-day and late Pleistocene ... |
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Kjær, Kurt H Winther Pedersen, Mikkel De Sanctis, Bianca De Cahsan, Binia Korneliussen, Thorfinn S Michelsen, Christian S Sand, Karina K Jelavić, Stanislav Ruter, Anthony H Schmidt, Astrid MA Kjeldsen, Kristian K Tesakov, Alexey S Snowball, Ian Gosse, John C Alsos, Inger G Wang, Yucheng Dockter, Christoph Rasmussen, Magnus Jørgensen, Morten E Skadhauge, Birgitte Prohaska, Ana Kristensen, Jeppe Å Bjerager, Morten Allentoft, Morten E Coissac, Eric PhyloNorway Consortium Rouillard, Alexandra Simakova, Alexandra Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio Bowler, Chris Macias-Fauria, Marc Vinner, Lasse Welch, John J Hidy, Alan J Sikora, Martin Collins, Matthew J Durbin, Richard Larsen, Nicolaj K Willerslev, Eske |
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Kjær, Kurt H Winther Pedersen, Mikkel De Sanctis, Bianca De Cahsan, Binia Korneliussen, Thorfinn S Michelsen, Christian S Sand, Karina K Jelavić, Stanislav Ruter, Anthony H Schmidt, Astrid MA Kjeldsen, Kristian K Tesakov, Alexey S Snowball, Ian Gosse, John C Alsos, Inger G Wang, Yucheng Dockter, Christoph Rasmussen, Magnus Jørgensen, Morten E Skadhauge, Birgitte Prohaska, Ana Kristensen, Jeppe Å Bjerager, Morten Allentoft, Morten E Coissac, Eric PhyloNorway Consortium Rouillard, Alexandra Simakova, Alexandra Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio Bowler, Chris Macias-Fauria, Marc Vinner, Lasse Welch, John J Hidy, Alan J Sikora, Martin Collins, Matthew J Durbin, Richard Larsen, Nicolaj K Willerslev, Eske |
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A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. ... |
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A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. ... |
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A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. ... |
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A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. ... |
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A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA. ... |
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2-million-year-old ecosystem in greenland uncovered by environmental dna. ... |
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