Lake sedimentary DNA research on past terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity: Overview and recommendations

E Capo, C Giguet-Covex, A Rouillard, K Nota… - Quaternary, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and
aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely …

Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe

E Dietze, M Theuerkauf, K Bloom, A Brauer… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural component of global biogeochemical cycles and closely related to changes
in human land use. Whereas climate-fuel relationships seem to drive both global and …

Holocene seasonal temperature evolution and spatial variability over the Northern Hemisphere landmass

W Zhang, H Wu, J Cheng, J Geng, Q Li, Y Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the temperature divergence between Holocene proxy reconstructions and
model simulations remains controversial, but it possibly results from potential biases in the …

[HTML][HTML] A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

D Kaufman, N McKay, C Routson, M Erb, B Davis… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into
the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of …

Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia

IG Alsos, DP Rijal, D Ehrich, DN Karger, NG Yoccoz… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
What drives ecosystem buildup, diversity, and stability? We assess species arrival and
ecosystem changes across 16 millennia by combining regional-scale plant sedimentary …

Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal

F Schenk, M Väliranta, F Muschitiello, L Tarasov… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Younger Dryas (YD) cold reversal interrupts the warming climate of the
deglaciation with global climatic impacts. The sudden cooling is typically linked to an abrupt …

The deglacial forest conundrum

A Dallmeyer, T Kleinen, M Claussen, N Weitzel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract How fast the Northern Hemisphere (NH) forest biome tracks strongly warming
climates is largely unknown. Regional studies reveal lags between decades and millennia …

Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: The potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments

A Revéret, DP Rijal, PD Heintzman… - Freshwater …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA is increasingly being used to reconstruct past and present biodiversity
including from freshwater ecosystems. Macrophytes are especially good environmental …

[HTML][HTML] A 24,000-year ancient DNA and pollen record from the Polar Urals reveals temporal dynamics of arctic and boreal plant communities

CL Clarke, IG Alsos, ME Edwards, A Paus… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract A 24,000-year record of plant community dynamics, based on pollen and ancient
DNA from the sediments (sedaDNA) of Lake Bolshoye Shchuchye in the Polar Ural …

[PDF][PDF] Plant macrofossil introduction

HH Birks - Encyclopedia of quaternary science, 2007 - researchgate.net
Plant macrofossil analysis is being increasingly used in Quaternary science. Quantitative
palaeoecological macrofossil analysis was developed by WA Watts in the United States …