Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Y Wang, MW Pedersen, IG Alsos, B De Sanctis… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic
changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood …

[HTML][HTML] Did the Eurasian ice sheets melt completely in early Marine Isotope Stage 3? New evidence from Norway and a synthesis for Eurasia

J Mangerud, H Alexanderson, HH Birks, A Paus… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
We describe glaci-lacustrine sediments buried under thick tills in Folldalen, south-east
Norway, a site located close to the former centre of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet. Thus, the …

Lake Yamal, an ice-dammed megalake in the West Siberian Arctic during the Late Pleistocene,∼ 60–35 ka

DV Nazarov, OA Nikolskaia, IV Zhigmanovskiy… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
We here reconstruct giant Lake Yamal that existed ca. 60–35 ka BP across the northern
Yamal Peninsula and parts of the Kara Sea shelf in the West Siberian Arctic. Its sediments …

Formation of the upper reaches of the Yellow River: Provenance evidence from the strata of the Yellow River sedimentary basin

B Li, Q Feng, X Wang, Z Li, F Wang, C Zhao… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The age of the formation of the upper reaches of the Yellow River is controversial, ranging
from the Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene. However, determining the source of the detrital …

Unveiling the ecological applications of ancient DNA from mollusk shells

C Der Sarkissian, P Möller, CA Hofman… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The shells of marine mollusks represent promising metagenomic archives of the past,
adding to bones, teeth, hairs, and environmental samples most commonly examined in …

Unravelling the fragmented sediment–landform assemblage in an area of thick Quaternary sediment, western Hudson Bay Lowland, Canada

TJ Hodder, MS Gauthier, M Ross… - … Journal of Earth …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) reconstructions beyond the last glacial maximum (LGM) are
difficult due to the incomplete stratigraphic record that has largely been eroded by the most …

Cryptic species complex or an incomplete speciation? Phylogeographic analysis reveals an intricate Pleistocene history of Priapulus caudatus Lamarck, 1816

G Kolbasova, A Schmidt-Rhaesa, V Syomin… - Zoologischer …, 2023 - Elsevier
We detected five divergent COI lineages in Priapulus caudatus Lamarck, 1816: four from the
Arctic and one from the Sea of Okhotsk. K2P distances ranged from 6.87% to 14.35% with a …

Evidence for the intrusion of marine Atlantic waters into the West Siberian Arctic during the Middle Pleistocene

DV Nazarov, OA Nikolskaia, AS Gladysheva… - Boreas, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Marine sediments occupy a significant portion of the Quaternary succession in the West
Siberian Arctic but, until recently, their ages and distributions have been strongly debated …

Isotopic constraints on the late Pleistocene glacial water and sediment inputs to the central Arctic ocean

L Dong, L Polyak, Y Zhang, A Portnov, H Zhang… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Quaternary history of the Arctic Ocean reflects pronounced periodic changes in marine
and glacial environments. This variability is an important component of the Arctic …

Sedimentation history of lake taymyr, central russian arctic, since the last glacial maximum

R Gromig, E Lebas, L Savelieva… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydro‐acoustic and seismic data and 2‐to 16‐m‐long sediment cores from the central area
of Lake Taymyr (Taymyr Peninsula, central Russian Arctic) were investigated to reconstruct …