Nature Communications (Nov 2022)
High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change
- Sandra Garcés-Pastor,
- Eric Coissac,
- Sébastien Lavergne,
- Christoph Schwörer,
- Jean-Paul Theurillat,
- Peter D. Heintzman,
- Owen S. Wangensteen,
- Willy Tinner,
- Fabian Rey,
- Martina Heer,
- Astrid Rutzer,
- Kevin Walsh,
- Youri Lammers,
- Antony G. Brown,
- Tomasz Goslar,
- Dilli P. Rijal,
- Dirk N. Karger,
- Loïc Pellissier,
- The PhyloAlps Consortium,
- Oliver Heiri,
- Inger Greve Alsos
Affiliations
- Sandra Garcés-Pastor
- The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- Eric Coissac
- Université Grenoble-Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
- Sébastien Lavergne
- Université Grenoble-Alpes, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
- Christoph Schwörer
- Palaeoecology, Institute of Plant Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
- Jean-Paul Theurillat
- Fondation Aubert, 1938 Champex-Lac, Switzerland, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Geneva
- Peter D. Heintzman
- The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- Owen S. Wangensteen
- Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- Willy Tinner
- Palaeoecology, Institute of Plant Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
- Fabian Rey
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel
- Martina Heer
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel
- Astrid Rutzer
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel
- Kevin Walsh
- Department of Archaeology, University of York
- Youri Lammers
- The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- Antony G. Brown
- The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- Tomasz Goslar
- Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University
- Dilli P. Rijal
- The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- Dirk N. Karger
- Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL)
- Loïc Pellissier
- Department of Environmental System Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich
- The PhyloAlps Consortium
- Oliver Heiri
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel
- Inger Greve Alsos
- The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34010-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 16
Abstract
Here, the authors use sedimentary DNA, pollen, fungal spores, chironomids, and microcharcoal from an alpine lake core to reconstruct vegetation across 12,000 years. They find that vegetation responded to climate in the early Holocene, followed by a shift to human activity from 6000 years onward corresponding with an increase in deforestation and agropastoralism.
