High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 6559 - 16
• Main Authors: Garcés-Pastor, Sandra, Coissac, Eric, Lavergne, Sébastien, Schwörer, Christoph, Theurillat, Jean-Paul, Heintzman, Peter D., Wangensteen, Owen S., Tinner, Willy, Rey, Fabian, Heer, Martina, Rutzer, Astrid, Walsh, Kevin, Lammers, Youri, Brown, Antony G., Goslar, Tomasz, Rijal, Dilli P., Karger, Dirk N., Pellissier, Loïc, Heiri, Oliver, Alsos, Inger Greve
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 04.11.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Springer Nature; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/106/413; 704/158/2165; 704/158/2462; 704/158/670; Climate Change; Coexistence; Deforestation; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA, Ancient; Flowers & plants; Holocene; Human impact; Human influences; Human-environment relationship; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Lakes; Land use; Life Sciences; Livestock; Middle Ages; Mountain lakes; multidisciplinary; Plant diversity; Plant species; Plants (botany); Plants - genetics; Pollen; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Spores; Stone Age; Taxa; Vegetation; Alps; Palaeoecology; Biodiversity; Climate-change ecology; Palaeoclimate

The European Alps are highly rich in species, but their future may be threatened by ongoing changes in human land use and climate. Here, we reconstructed vegetation, temperature, human impact and livestock over the past ~12,000 years from Lake Sulsseewli, based on sedimentary ancient plant and mamma...