Lake sediment multi-taxon DNA from North Greenland records early post-glacial appearance of vascular plants and accurately tracks environmental changes

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Epp, Laura Saskia, Gussarova, Galina L., Boessenkool, Sanne, Olsen, Jesper, Haile, James, Schroder-Nielsen, Audun, Ludikova, Anna V., Hassel, Kristian, Stenoien, Hans Kristen, Funder, Svend, Willerslev, Eske, Kjaer, Kurt H., Brochmann, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified; Arctic; Greenland; Bliss Lake; Empetrum nigrum; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172176; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.03.027

High Arctic environments are particularly sensitive to climate changes, but retrieval of paleoecological data is challenging due to low productivity and biomass. At the same time, Arctic soils and sediments have proven exceptional for long-term DNA preservation due to their constantly low temperatur...