Ice Age Genomic Tracking of Refugia and Postglacial Dispersal

Project Information

IceAGenT

Grant agreement ID: 819192

DOI

10.3030/819192

Project closed

EC signature date 20 March 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 189 775,75

EU contribution

€ 2 189 775,75

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET
Norway

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

wholeskim: Utilising Genome Skims for Taxonomically Annotating Ancient <scp>DNA</scp> Metagenomes

Author(s): Lucas Elliott, Frédéric Boyer, Teo Lemane, null null, Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.70001

Sedimentary Ancient DNA Reveals Local Vegetation Changes Driven by Glacial Activity and Climate

Author(s): Lucas D. Elliott; Dilli P. Rijal; Antony G. Brown; Jostein Bakke; Lasse Topstad; Peter D. Heintzman; Inger G. Alsos
Published in: Quaternary, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 2571-550X
Publisher: MPDI
DOI: 10.3390/quat6010007

Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity

Author(s): Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Peter D. Heintzman, Scarlett Zetter, Youri Lammers, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Christoph Schwörer, Andreas Tribsch, Kevin Walsh, Boris Vannière, Owen S. Wangensteen, Oliver Heiri, Eric Coissac, Sébastien Lavergne, Lieveke van Vugt, Fabian Rey, Charline Giguet-Covex, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Dirk N. Karger, Loïc Pellissier, Robert Schabetsberger, Jean Nicol
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59028-2

Ancient sedimentary DNA shows rapid post-glacial colonisation of Iceland followed by relatively stable vegetation until the Norse settlement (Landnám) AD 870

Author(s): Inger Greve Alsos, Youri Lammers, Sofia E. Kjellman, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Emma M. Bender, Alexandra Rouillard, Egill Erlendsson, Esther Ruth Guðmundsdóttir, Ívar Örn Benediktsson, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Skafti Brynjólfsson, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sigrún Dögg Eddudóttir, Anders Schomacker
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 259, 2021, Page(s) 106903, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106903

Postglacial species arrival and diversity build-up of northern ecosystems took millennia

Author(s): INGER GREVE ALSOS, DILLI PRASAD RIJAL, DOROTHEE EHRICH, DIRK NIKOLAUS KARGER, NIGEL GILLES YOCCOZ, PETER D. HEINTZMAN, ANTONY G. BROWN, YOURI LAMMERS, LOÏC PELLISSIER, TORBJØRN ALM, KARI ANNE BRÅTHEN, ERIC COISSAC, MARIE KRISTINE FØREID MERKEL, ADRIANA ALBERTI, FRANCE DENOEUD, JOSTEIN BAKKE, PHYLONORWAY CONSORTIUM
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 28th of September 2022, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo7434

A 75,000-y-old Scandinavian Arctic cave deposit reveals past faunal diversity and paleoenvironment

Author(s): Samuel J. Walker, Aurélie Boilard, Mona Henriksen, Edana Lord, Marius Robu, Jan-Pieter Buylaert, Liselotte M. Takken Beijersbergen, Lene Synnøve Halvorsen, Adriana M. Cintrón-Santiago, Emma Katrin Onshuus, Christopher Alan Cockerill, Gabor Ujvari, László Palcsu, Marjan Temovski, Jenny Maccali, Henriette Linge, Jesper Olsen, Sverre Aksnes, Anastasia Bertheussen, Ola Lygre, Inger G. Alsos, Love
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2415008122

SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps

Author(s): Scarlett Zetter, Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Youri Lammers, Antony G Brown, Kevin Walsh, Tomasz Goslar, Sébastien Lavergne, Eric Coissac, PhyloAlps Consortium, Andreas Tribsch, Peter D Heintzman, Inger Greve Alsos
Published in: The Holocene, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 383-396, ISSN 0959-6836
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09596836241307304

Lateglacial and Early Holocene palaeoenvironmental change and human activity at Killerby Quarry, North Yorkshire, UK

Author(s): Samuel M Hudson; Clive Waddington; Ben Pears; Natalie Ellis; Luke Parker; Derek Hamilton; Inger Greve Alsos; Paul Hughes; Antony Brown
Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science, Issue 38, 2023, ISSN 1099-1417
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3488

Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change

Author(s): Inger Greve Alsos, Victor Boussange, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Marieke Beaulieu, Antony Gavin Brown, Ulrike Herzschuh, Jens-Christian Svenning and Loïc Pellissier
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 379, 2024, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0017

Uncovering Holocene climate fluctuations and ancient conifer populations: Insights from a high-resolution multi-proxy record from Northern Finland

Author(s): J. Sakari Salonen, Niina Kuosmanen, Inger G. Alsos, Peter D. Heintzman, Dilli P. Rijal, Frederik Schenk, Freja Bogren, Miska Luoto, Annemarie Philip, Sanna Piilo, Liva Trasune, Minna Väliranta, Karin F. Helmens
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, 2024, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104462

Last Glacial Maximum environmental conditions at Andøya, northern Norway; evidence for a northern ice-edge ecological “hotspot”

Author(s): Inger G. Alsos, Per Sjögren, Antony G. Brown, Ludovic Gielly, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Aage Paus, Youri Lammers, Mary E. Edwards, Torbjørn Alm, Melanie Leng, Tomasz Goslar, Catherine T. Langdon, Jostein Bakke, Willem G.M. van der Bilt
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 239, 2020, Page(s) 106364, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106364

Multiplexing <scp>PCR</scp> allows the identification of within‐species genetic diversity in ancient <scp>eDNA</scp>

Author(s): Y. Lammers; P. Taberlet; E. Coissac; L. D. Elliott; M. F. Merkel; I. Pitelkova; I. G. Alsos
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1755-0998
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13926

Phylogeography of Arctic plants: where are we after 35 years, and where to go?

Author(s): Christian Brochmann, Cassandra Elphinstone, Siri Birkeland, Hajime Ikeda, Pernille B. Eidesen, Inger G. Alsos, Kristine B. Westergaard
Published in: Plant Ecology &amp; Diversity, 2025, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 1755-0874
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2025.2571098

The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species

Author(s): John R. Stewart, Inger G. Alsos, Antony G. Brown, Love Dalén, Peter D. Heintzman
Published in: Trends in Ecology &amp; Evolution, Issue 40, 2025, Page(s) 687-698, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.005

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Author(s): Yucheng Wang, Mikkel Winter Pedersen, Inger Greve Alsos,,, Eric Coissac,,, Youri Lammers, ,, et al.
Published in: Nature, Issue 600, 2021, Page(s) 86-92, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x

Can Amplicon Sequencing Be Replaced by Metagenomics for Biodiversity Inventories?

Author(s): Lucas Elliott, Eric Coissac
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.70047

Neolithic pastoralism and plant community interactions at high altitudes of the Pyrenees, southern Europe

Author(s): Irene Julián-Posada, Graciela Gil-Romera, Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Peter D. Heintzman, Daniel Gómez, Federico Fillat, Ana Moreno, Javier Lara-Recuero, Pere Bover, Lourdes Montes, Alejandro Sierra, Blas Valero-Garcés, Inger G. Alsos, Penélope González-Sampériz
Published in: Communications Earth &amp; Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02023-8

A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA

Author(s): Kurt H. Kjær; Mikkel Winther Pedersen; Bianca De Sanctis; Binia De Cahsan; Thorfinn S. Korneliussen; Christian S. Michelsen; Karina K. Sand; Stanislav Jelavić; Anthony H. Ruter; Astrid M. A. Schmidt; Kristian K. Kjeldsen; Alexey S. Tesakov; Ian Snowball; John C. Gosse; Inger G. Alsos; Yucheng Wang; Christoph Dockter; Magnus Rasmussen; Morten E. Jørgensen; Birgitte Skadhauge; Ana Prohaska; Jeppe
Published in: Nature, Issue 612, 2022, Page(s) 283-291, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05453-y

Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems

Author(s): Sandra Nogué, Naia Morueta-Holme, José María Fernández-Palacios, Inger G. Alsos, Anthony Brown, Patrick Roberts, Josep Peñuelas
Published in: Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 644-656, ISSN 3005-0677
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44358-025-00081-6

Millennia of metacommunity diversification and homogenization captured by sedimentary ancient DNA

Author(s): Dilli Prasad Rijal, Antony Brown, Nigel Yoccoz, Peter Heintzman, Inger Alsos, Kari Anne Bråthen
Published in: Ecology Letters, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) e70218, ISSN 1461-0248
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.22541/au.174895925.54844679/v1

Potential plant extinctions with the loss of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe

Author(s): Jérémy Courtin, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Simeon Lisovski, Ying Liu, Inger Greve Alsos, Boris K. Biskaborn, Bernhard Diekmann, Martin Melles, Bernd Wagner, Luidmila Pestryakova, James Russell, Yongsong Huang, Ulrike Herzschuh
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55542-x

Book chapters (2)

The Sedimentary Ancient DNA Workflow

Author(s): Peter D. Heintzman, Kevin Nota, Alexandra Rouillard, Youri Lammers, Tyler J. Murchie, Linda Armbrecht, Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Benjamin Vernot
Published in: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments, 2024, Page(s) 53-84
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43799-1_3

Terrestrial Plant DNA from Lake Sediments

Author(s): Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Kevin Nota, Dilli P. Rijal, Sisi Liu, Weihan Jia, Maria Leunda, Christoph Schwören, Sarah E. Crump, Laura Parducci, Inger Greve Alsos
Published in: Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments, Issue Development in Paleoenvironmetal Reserach 21, 2024, Page(s) 275-298, ISSN 1571-5299
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43799-1

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Echoes of the Past: Finding the Secrets of Ancient Ecosystems using SedaDNA

Author(s): Scarlette Zetter
Published in: Echoes of the Past: Finding the Secrets of Ancient Ecosystems using SedaDNA, 2025, ISBN 978-82-8266-283-3
Publisher: UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

Unlocking the potential of sedimentary ancient DNA

Author(s): Lucas Dane Elliott
Published in: Unlocking the potential of sedimentary ancient DNA, 2024, ISBN 978-82-8266-268-0
Publisher: UiT - The Arctic University of Norway