A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA.

• Main Authors: Kjær, Kurt H, Winther Pedersen, Mikkel, De Sanctis, Bianca, De Cahsan, Binia, Korneliussen, Thorfinn S, Michelsen, Christian S, Sand, Karina K, Jelavić, Stanislav, Ruter, Anthony H, Schmidt, Astrid MA, Kjeldsen, Kristian K, Tesakov, Alexey S, Snowball, Ian, Gosse, John C, Alsos, Inger G, Wang, Yucheng, Dockter, Christoph, Rasmussen, Magnus, Jørgensen, Morten E, Skadhauge, Birgitte, Prohaska, Ana, Kristensen, Jeppe Å, Bjerager, Morten, Allentoft, Morten E, Coissac, Eric, PhyloNorway Consortium, Rouillard, Alexandra, Simakova, Alexandra, Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio, Bowler, Chris, Macias-Fauria, Marc, Vinner, Lasse, Welch, John J, Hidy, Alan J, Sikora, Martin, Collins, Matthew J, Durbin, Richard, Larsen, Nicolaj K, Willerslev, Eske
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2023
• Subjects: DNA; Environmental; Ecosystem; Ecology; Fossils; Greenland; Arctic; Kap; Kap København; North Greenland
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/345115; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.92544

Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago1 had climates resembling those forecasted under future warming2. Palaeoclimatic records show strong polar amplification with mean annual temperatures of 11-19 °C above contemporary values3,4. The biological communities inhabitin...