Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Willerslev, E., Davison, J., Moora, M., Zobel, M., Coissac, E., Edwards, M., Lorenzen, E., Vestergård, M., Gussarova, G., Haile, J., Craine, J., Gielly, L., Boessenkool, S., Epp, L., Pearman, P., Cheddadi, R., Murray, D., Bråthen, K., Yoccoz, N., Binney, H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
• Subjects: Palaeoecology; Arctic; Austin; Jeremy; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/96438; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12921

Although it is generally agreed that the Arctic flora is among the youngest and least diverse on Earth, the processes that shaped it are poorly understood. Here we present 50 thousand years (kyr) of Arctic vegetation history, derived from the first large-scale ancient DNA metabarcoding study of circ...