Late Quaternary Dynamics of Arctic Biota from Ancient Environmental Genomics
During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood1–8. Here we report a large-scale environmental DNA metagenomic study of ancient plant and mammal communities, analysing 535...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:1152e11f-b886-4d1c-a706-283c10e470d5 2023-05-15T14:47:05+02:00 Late Quaternary Dynamics of Arctic Biota from Ancient Environmental Genomics Wang, Yucheng Winther Pedersen, Mikkel Alsos, Inger Greve De Sanctis, Bianca Racimo, Fernando Prohaska, Ana Coissac, Eric Owens, Hannah Lois Merkel, Marie Kristine Føreid Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio Rouillard, Alexandra Lammers, Youri Alberti, Adriana Denoeud, France Money, Daniel Ruter, Anthony H. McColl, Hugh Larsen, Nicolaj Krog Cherezova, Anna A. Edwards, Mary E. Fedorov, Grigory B. Haile, James Orlando, Ludovic Vinner, Lasse Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand Beilman, David W. Bjørk, Anders A. Cao, Jialu Dockter, Christoph Esdale, Julie Gusarova, Galina K. Kjeldsen, Kristian Mangerud, Jan Rasic, Jeffrey T. Skadhauge, Birgitte Svendsen, John-Inge Tikhonov, Alexei Wincker, Patrick Xing, Yingchun Zhang, Yubin Froese, Duane G. Rahbek, Carsten Nogues, David Bravo Holden, Philip B. Edwards, Neil R. Durbin, Richard Meltzer, David J. Kjær, Kurt H. Möller, Per Willerslev, Eske 2021-10-20 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1152e11f-b886-4d1c-a706-283c10e470d5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x eng eng Nature Publishing Group https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1152e11f-b886-4d1c-a706-283c10e470d5 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x scopus:85117398172 pmid:34671161 Nature; 600(7887), pp 86-92 (2021) ISSN: 0028-0836 Climate Research Geology climate-change ecology Ecological networks Metagenomics Next-generation sequencing Palaeoecology contributiontojournal/article info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2021 ftulundlup https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x 2023-02-22T23:27:34Z During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood1–8. Here we report a large-scale environmental DNA metagenomic study of ancient plant and mammal communities, analysing 535 permafrost and lake sediment samples from across the Arctic spanning the past 50,000 years. Furthermore, we present 1,541 contemporary plant genome assemblies that were generated as reference sequences. Our study provides several insights into the long-term dynamics of the Arctic biota at the circumpolar and regional scales. Our key fndings include: (1) a relatively homogeneous steppe–tundra fora dominated the Arctic during the Last Glacial Maximum, followed by regional divergence of vegetation during the Holocene epoch; (2) certain grazing animals consistently co-occurred in space and time; (3) humans appear to have been a minor factor in driving animal distributions; (4) higher efective precipitation, as well as an increase in the proportion of wetland plants, show negative efects on animal diversity; (5) the persistence of the steppe–tundra vegetation in northern Siberia enabled the late survival of several now-extinct megafauna species, including the woolly mammoth until 3.9 ± 0.2 thousand years ago (ka) and the woolly rhinoceros until 9.8 ± 0.2 ka; and (6) phylogenetic analysis of mammoth environmental DNA reveals a previously unsampled mitochondrial lineage. Our fndings highlight the power of ancient environmental metagenomics analyses to advance understanding of population histories and long-term ecological dynamics Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change permafrost Tundra Siberia Lund University Publications (LUP) Arctic Nature 600 7887 86 92 |
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During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood1–8. Here we report a large-scale environmental DNA metagenomic study of ancient plant and mammal communities, analysing 535 permafrost and lake sediment samples from across the Arctic spanning the past 50,000 years. Furthermore, we present 1,541 contemporary plant genome assemblies that were generated as reference sequences. Our study provides several insights into the long-term dynamics of the Arctic biota at the circumpolar and regional scales. Our key fndings include: (1) a relatively homogeneous steppe–tundra fora dominated the Arctic during the Last Glacial Maximum, followed by regional divergence of vegetation during the Holocene epoch; (2) certain grazing animals consistently co-occurred in space and time; (3) humans appear to have been a minor factor in driving animal distributions; (4) higher efective precipitation, as well as an increase in the proportion of wetland plants, show negative efects on animal diversity; (5) the persistence of the steppe–tundra vegetation in northern Siberia enabled the late survival of several now-extinct megafauna species, including the woolly mammoth until 3.9 ± 0.2 thousand years ago (ka) and the woolly rhinoceros until 9.8 ± 0.2 ka; and (6) phylogenetic analysis of mammoth environmental DNA reveals a previously unsampled mitochondrial lineage. Our fndings highlight the power of ancient environmental metagenomics analyses to advance understanding of population histories and long-term ecological dynamics |
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Wang, Yucheng Winther Pedersen, Mikkel Alsos, Inger Greve De Sanctis, Bianca Racimo, Fernando Prohaska, Ana Coissac, Eric Owens, Hannah Lois Merkel, Marie Kristine Føreid Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio Rouillard, Alexandra Lammers, Youri Alberti, Adriana Denoeud, France Money, Daniel Ruter, Anthony H. McColl, Hugh Larsen, Nicolaj Krog Cherezova, Anna A. Edwards, Mary E. Fedorov, Grigory B. Haile, James Orlando, Ludovic Vinner, Lasse Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand Beilman, David W. Bjørk, Anders A. Cao, Jialu Dockter, Christoph Esdale, Julie Gusarova, Galina K. Kjeldsen, Kristian Mangerud, Jan Rasic, Jeffrey T. Skadhauge, Birgitte Svendsen, John-Inge Tikhonov, Alexei Wincker, Patrick Xing, Yingchun Zhang, Yubin Froese, Duane G. Rahbek, Carsten Nogues, David Bravo Holden, Philip B. Edwards, Neil R. Durbin, Richard Meltzer, David J. Kjær, Kurt H. Möller, Per Willerslev, Eske |
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Wang, Yucheng Winther Pedersen, Mikkel Alsos, Inger Greve De Sanctis, Bianca Racimo, Fernando Prohaska, Ana Coissac, Eric Owens, Hannah Lois Merkel, Marie Kristine Føreid Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio Rouillard, Alexandra Lammers, Youri Alberti, Adriana Denoeud, France Money, Daniel Ruter, Anthony H. McColl, Hugh Larsen, Nicolaj Krog Cherezova, Anna A. Edwards, Mary E. Fedorov, Grigory B. Haile, James Orlando, Ludovic Vinner, Lasse Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand Beilman, David W. Bjørk, Anders A. Cao, Jialu Dockter, Christoph Esdale, Julie Gusarova, Galina K. Kjeldsen, Kristian Mangerud, Jan Rasic, Jeffrey T. Skadhauge, Birgitte Svendsen, John-Inge Tikhonov, Alexei Wincker, Patrick Xing, Yingchun Zhang, Yubin Froese, Duane G. Rahbek, Carsten Nogues, David Bravo Holden, Philip B. Edwards, Neil R. Durbin, Richard Meltzer, David J. Kjær, Kurt H. Möller, Per Willerslev, Eske |
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Late Quaternary Dynamics of Arctic Biota from Ancient Environmental Genomics |
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Late Quaternary Dynamics of Arctic Biota from Ancient Environmental Genomics |
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