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Letter Multidisciplinary Sciences

When did mammoths go extinct?

Joshua H. Miller et al.

NATURE (2022)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Yucheng Wang et al.

Summary: A large-scale metagenomic analysis of plant and mammal environmental DNA in the circumpolar region over the past 50,000 years shows complex ecological changes, including the extinction of large mammals postglacially and the emergence of modern ecosystems. The study provides insights into the long-term dynamics of Arctic biota at both circumpolar and regional scales, highlighting the power of ancient environmental metagenomics analyses in understanding population histories and long-term ecological dynamics.

NATURE (2021)

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Article Geography, Physical

Combining Bayesian age models and genetics to investigate population dynamics and extinction of the last mammoths in northern Siberia

Marianne Dehasque et al.

Summary: This study combined radiocarbon and genetic data to reconstruct the population history and extinction dynamics of the woolly mammoth in northern Siberia. Mammoths disappeared on the eastern Siberian mainland before the Younger Dryas, but persisted in the northernmost parts of central and western Siberia until the early Holocene. Genetic results support the hypothesis that mammoths recolonized Wrangel Island from a central and/or west-Siberian population and lived there for about 6000 years before going extinct around 4000 years ago.

QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS (2021)

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Review Plant Sciences