Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

2014/02/01 by Eske Willerslev, John Davison, Mari Moora +57 · 539 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Archaeology #Arctic #Biology #Ecology #Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies #Forb #Geography #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Graminoid #Grassland #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Megafauna #Pleistocene #Tundra #Vegetation (pathology)

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/nature12921

published in Nature 506(7486), 47-51 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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• Woolly mammoth [wikipedia]