Data from: A comparative study of ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and macrofossils from permafrost sediments of northern Siberia reveals long-term vegetational stability ...

• Main Authors: Jørgensen, Tina, Haile, James, Möller, Per, Andreev, Andrei, Boessenkool, Sanne, Rasmussen, Morten, Kienast, Frank, Coissac, Eric, Taberlet, Pierre, Brochmann, Christian, Bigelow, Nancy H., Andersen, Kenneth, Orlando, Ludovic, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Willerslev, Eske
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2011
• Subjects: Late Pleistocene; macrofossils; spermatophytes; Spermatophyta; ancient sedimentary plant DNA; Taymyr; permafrost; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.09p3k; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.09p3k

Although ancient DNA from sediments (sedaDNA) has been used to investigate past ecosystems, the approach has never been directly compared to the traditional methods of pollen and macrofossil analysis. We conducted a comparative survey of 18 ancient permafrost samples spanning the Late Pleistocene (4...