Postglacial viability and colonization in North America's ice-free corridor

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Ruter, Anthony, Schweger, Charles, Friebe, Harvey, Staff, Richard A., Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Mendoza, Marie L. Z., Beaudoin, Alwynne B., Zutter, Cynthia, Larsen, Nicolaj K., Potter, Ben A., Nielsen, Rasmus, Rainville, Rebecca A., Orlando, Ludovic, Meltzer, David J., Kjaer, Kurt H., Willerslev, Eske
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing 2016
• Subjects: Population; Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics; The Corridor; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172155; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19085

During the Last Glacial Maximum, continental ice sheets isolated Beringia (northeast Siberia and northwest North America) from unglaciated North America. By around 15 to 14 thousand calibrated radiocarbon years before present (cal. kyr bp), glacial retreat opened an approximately 1,500-km-long corri...