Revising the archaeological record of the Upper Pleistocene Arctic Siberia: Human dispersal and adaptations in MIS 3 and 2

V Pitulko, E Pavlova, P Nikolskiy - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
As the main external driver, environmental changes largely predetermine human population
distribution, especially in the Arctic, where environmental conditions were often too extreme …

Recent advances in paleoclimatological studies of Arctic wedge‐and pore‐ice stable‐water isotope records

TJ Porter, T Opel - Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Late Pleistocene and Holocene ground ice are common throughout the Arctic.
Some forms of relict ground ice preserve local meteoric water, and their stable oxygen‐and …

Yedoma: Late Pleistocene ice-rich syngenetic permafrost of Beringia

L Schirrmeister, D Froese, S Wetterich, J Strauss… - 2024 - epic.awi.de
Yedoma is a permafrost deposit widely distributed across the Arctic and found exclusively
within the unglaciated regions in northern Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon, which are the …

Stabilization of mineral-associated organic carbon in Pleistocene permafrost

J Martens, CW Mueller, P Joshi, C Rosinger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ice-rich Pleistocene-age permafrost is particularly vulnerable to rapid thaw, which may
quickly expose a large pool of sedimentary organic matter (OM) to microbial degradation …

Remobilization of dormant carbon from Siberian-Arctic permafrost during three past warming events

J Martens, B Wild, F Muschitiello, M O'Regan… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Carbon cycle models suggest that past warming events in the Arctic may have caused large-
scale permafrost thaw and carbon remobilization, thus affecting atmospheric CO2 levels …

Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Yedoma Silt (ice complex) deposition as cold‐climate loess, Duvanny Yar, Northeast Siberia

JB Murton, T Goslar, ME Edwards… - Permafrost and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainty about the geological processes that deposited syngenetically frozen ice‐rich silt
(yedoma) across hundreds of thousands of square kilometres in central and northern Siberia …

Fossil organic matter characteristics in permafrost deposits of the northeast Siberian Arctic

L Schirrmeister, G Grosse, S Wetterich… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost deposits constitute a large organic carbon pool highly vulnerable to degradation
and potential carbon release due to global warming. Permafrost sections along coastal and …

Pleistocene glacial and interglacial ecosystems inferred from ancient DNA analyses of permafrost sediments from Batagay megaslump, East Siberia

J Courtin, A Perfumo, AA Andreev, T Opel… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pronounced glacial and interglacial climate cycles characterized northern ecosystems
during the Pleistocene. Our understanding of the resultant community transformations and …

Extensive loss of past permafrost carbon but a net accumulation into present-day soils

A Lindgren, G Hugelius, P Kuhry - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide increased between the Last Glacial Maximum
(LGM, around 21,000 years ago) and the preindustrial era. It is thought that the evolution of …

Pre-extinction demographic stability and genomic signatures of adaptation in the woolly rhinoceros

E Lord, N Dussex, M Kierczak, D Díez-del-Molino… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Ancient DNA has significantly improved our understanding of the evolution and population
history of extinct megafauna. However, few studies have used complete ancient genomes to …