Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Parducci, L., Jorgensen, T., Tollefsrud, M. M., Elverland, E., Alm, T., Fontana, S. L., Bennett, K. D., Haile, J., Matetovici, I., Suyama, Y., Edwards, M. E., Andersen, K., Rasmussen, M., Boessenkool, S., Coissac, E., Brochmann, C., Taberlet, P., Houmark-Nielsen, M., Larsen, N. K., Orlando, L., Gilbert, M. T. P., Kjaer, K. H., Alsos, I. G., Willerslev, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Andøya; Norway; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/338924/

It is commonly believed that trees were absent in Scandinavia during the last glaciation and first recolonized the Scandinavian Peninsula with the retreat of its ice sheet some 9000 years ago. Here, we show the presence of a rare mitochondrial DNA haplotype of spruce that appears unique to Scandinav...