Abstract 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 …

Plants adapted to extreme conditions can be at high risk from climate change; arctic-alpine
plants, in particular, could “run out of space” as they are out-competed by expansion of …

Reconstructing past vegetation and species diversity from arctic lake sediments can be
challenging because of low pollen and plant macrofossil concentrations. Information may be …

Paleoenvironmental studies are essential to understand biodiversity changes over long
timescales and to assess the relative importance of anthropogenic and environmental …

Although sedimentary ancient DNA (sed aDNA) has been increasingly used to study
paleoecological dynamics, the approach has rarely been compared with the traditional …

The lake sediments of Hässeldala Port in south-east Sweden provide an archive of local and
regional environmental conditions~ 14.5–9.5 ka BP (thousand years before present) and …

Both climate change and anthropogenic disturbance affect vegetation composition, but it is
difficult to separate these drivers of vegetation change from one another. A better …

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 …

Understanding patterns of colonisation is important for explaining both the distribution of
single species and anticipating how ecosystems may respond to global warming. Insular …

We present a Holocene record of floristic diversity and environmental change for the central
Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark, based on ancient DNA extracted from the sediments of a …