Plant diversity in sedimentary DNA obtained from high-latitude (Siberia) and high-elevation lakes (China).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plant diversity in the Arctic and at high altitudes strongly depends on and rebounds to climatic and environmental variability and is nowadays tremendously impacted by recent climate warming. Therefore, past changes in plant diversity in the high Arctic and high-altitude regions are used to infer climatic and environmental changes through time and allow future predictions. Sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) is an established proxy for the detection of local plant diversity in lake sediments, but still relationships between environmental conditions and preservation of the plant sedDNA proxy are far from being fully understood. Studying modern relationships between environmental conditions and plant sedDNA will improve our understanding under which conditions sedDNA is well-preserve

SUBMITTER: Stoof-Leichsenring KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7752886 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature