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

• Main Authors: Jørgensen, T., Haile, J., Möller, P., Andreev, A., Boessenkool, S., Rasmussen, M., Kienast, F., Coissac, E., Taberlet, P., Brochmann, C., Bigelow, N.H., Andersen, K., Orlando, L., Gilbert, M.T.P., Willerslev, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2012
• Subjects: Taymyr; Ice; permafrost; Taymyr Peninsula; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/8213/

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