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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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.56951 2023-05-15T14:28:12+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 arctic Quaternary 2014-02-06T18:32:28Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.56951 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ph8s5 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 doi:10.5061/dryad.ph8s5 Willerslev E, Davison J, Moora M, Zobel M, Coissac E, Edwards ME, Lorenzen ED, Vestergård M, Gussarova G, Haile J, Craine J, Gielly L, Boessenkool S, Epp LS, Pearman PB, Cheddadi R, Murray D, Bråthen KA, Yoccoz N, Binney H, Cruaud C, Wincker P, Goslar T, Alsos IG, Bellemain E, Brysting AK, Elven R, Sønstebø JH, Murton J, Sher A, Rasmussen M, Rønn R, Mourier T, Cooper A, Austin J, Möller P, Froese D, Zazula G, Pompanon F, Rioux D, Niderkorn V, Tikhonov A, Savvinov G, Roberts RG, MacPhee RDE, Gilbert MTP, Kjær KH, Orlando L, Brochmann C, Taberlet P (2014) Fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet. Nature 506: 47-51. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.56951 Ancient environmental DNA metabarcoding palaeoecology megafauna extinction Article 2014 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ph8s5 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/2 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/3 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/4 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ph8s5/5 https://doi.org/1 2020-01-01T15:05:07Z 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”. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Tundra Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) Arctic |
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Ancient environmental DNA metabarcoding palaeoecology megafauna extinction 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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