scholarly journals Improved recovery of ancient DNA from subfossil wood - application to the world's oldest Late Glacial pine forest

2017 ◽  
Vol 217 (4) ◽  
pp. 1737-1748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertalan Lendvay ◽  
Martin Hartmann ◽  
Sabine Brodbeck ◽  
Daniel Nievergelt ◽  
Frederick Reinig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Subfossil Wood

scholarly journals Diverse responses of common vole (Microtus arvalis) populations to Late Glacial and Early Holocene climate changes – Evidence from ancient DNA

2020 ◽  
Vol 233 ◽  
pp. 106239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Baca ◽  
Danijela Popović ◽  
Katarzyna Baca ◽  
Anna Lemanik ◽  
Karolina Doan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Common Vole ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Microtus Arvalis ◽  
Holocene Climate

scholarly journals Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1851) ◽  
pp. 20161976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana B. Pereira ◽  
Marta D. Costa ◽  
Daniel Vieira ◽  
Maria Pala ◽  
Lisa Bamford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Near East ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Dna Evidence ◽  
Late Glacial Period ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Mediterranean Europe ◽  
Genetic Pool

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient DNA. It seems clear that farming was introduced into central, northern, and eastern Europe from the south by pioneer colonization. It is often argued that these dispersals originated in the Near East, where the potential source genetic pool resembles that of the early European farmers, but clear ancient DNA evidence from Mediterranean Europe is lacking, and there are suggestions that Mediterranean Europe may have resembled the Near East more than the rest of Europe in the Mesolithic. Here, we test this proposal by dating mitogenome founder lineages from the Near East in different regions of Europe. We find that whereas the lineages date mainly to the Neolithic in central Europe and Iberia, they largely date to the Late Glacial period in central/eastern Mediterranean Europe. This supports a scenario in which the genetic pool of Mediterranean Europe was partly a result of Late Glacial expansions from a Near Eastern refuge, and that this formed an important source pool for subsequent Neolithic expansions into the rest of Europe.

scholarly journals Recent glacier recession - A new source of postglacial treeline and climate history in the Swedish Scandes

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Öberg ◽  
Leif Kullman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Warming ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Climate History ◽  
Entire Interval ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Summer Temperatures ◽  
Subfossil Wood

Climate warming during the past century has imposed recession of glaciers and perennial snow/ice patches along the entire Swedish Scandes. On the newly exposed forefields, subfossil wood remnants are being outwashed from beneath ice and snow bodies. In Scandinavia, this kind of detrital wood is a previously unused source of postglacial vegetation and climate history. The present study reports radiocarbon dates of a set of 78 wood samples, retrieved from three main sites, high above modern treelines and stretching along the Swedish Scandes. In accord with previous studies, pine (Pinus sylvestris) colonized early emerging nunataks already during the Late Glacial. Around 9600-9500 cal. yr BP a first massive wave of tree establishment, birch and pine, took place in "empty" glacier cirques. Both species grew 400-600 m above their present-ay treeline position and the summer temperatures may have been 3.5 oC warmer than present. In respons to Neoglacial cooling, treelines of both birch and pine descended until their final disappearance from the record 4400 and 5900 cal. yr BP, respectively. During the entire interval 9600 to 4400 cal. yr BP, birch prospered in a 100-150 broad belt above the uppermost pines. The recent emergence of tree remnants in the current habitats relates to the contemporary episode of climate warming, possibly unprecedented for several past millennia. It is inferred, by an anology with the past, that in a future scenario with summers 3.5 °warmer than present, the birch treeline may rise by 600 m or so.

High vegetation and environmental diversity during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene on the example of lowlands in the Czech Republic

Biologia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Libor Petr ◽  
Jan Novák
Keyword(s):  
Woody Species ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Glacial Period ◽  
Elbe River ◽  
Environmental Diversity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Late Glacial Period ◽  
The Elbe River

AbstractThe diversity of vegetation and the environment in the Late Glacial period in the Elbe region is illustrated by a comparison of three palynological localities. The localities differ in their history, profile lithology and position relative to the Elbe river. The Hrabanovská černava profile holds a record of the development of a shallow lake, which was surrounded by a cold continental steppe in the Early Dryas. Evidence of a pine forest in the Late Glacial period is captured in the surroundings of the profile Chrást. The Mělnický úval — Přívory locality is an interdune infill, where marl sediments redeposited in shallow water. The surrounding vegetation was diffuse and influenced by erosion. In the Early Holocene, the landscape was covered by an open birch-pine forest. Broad-leaved woody species appeared later. Localities in the Elbe region share a high proportion of Pinus throughout the Holocene as a result of the spread of drift and terrace sands. The human impact in the mid Holocene manifests as evidence of intensive charring of localities.

New insight into late glacial vegetation with sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA)

2012 ◽  
Vol 279-280 ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Tina Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Insight Into

Ancient DNA

AccessScience ◽  
2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna

Head of ancient-DNA lab sacked for ‘serious misconduct’

Nature ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dyani Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna

Ancient DNA reveals Phoenician tracks in the Mediterranean

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Brand
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
The Mediterranean

A New Jersey Pine Forest

1888 ◽  
Vol 26 (654supp) ◽  
pp. 10450-10451
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Pine Forest
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