TY  - GEN
A1  - Epp, Laura Saskia
A1  - Kruse, Stefan
A1  - Kath, Nadja J.
A1  - Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen Rosemarie
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
A1  - Pestryakova, Luidmila Agafyevna
A1  - Herzschuh, Ulrike
T1  - Temporal and spatial patterns of mitochondrial haplotype and species distributions in Siberian larches inferred from ancient environmental DNA and modeling
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Changes in species' distributions are classically projected based on their climate envelopes. For Siberian forests, which have a tremendous significance for vegetation-climate feedbacks, this implies future shifts of each of the forest-forming larch (Larix) species to the north-east. However, in addition to abiotic factors, reliable projections must assess the role of historical biogeography and biotic interactions. Here, we use sedimentary ancient DNA and individual-based modelling to investigate the distribution of larch species and mitochondrial haplotypes through space and time across the treeline ecotone on the southern Taymyr peninsula, which at the same time presents a boundary area of two larch species. We find spatial and temporal patterns, which suggest that forest density is the most influential driver determining the precise distribution of species and mitochondrial haplotypes. This suggests a strong influence of competition on the species' range shifts. These findings imply possible climate change outcomes that are directly opposed to projections based purely on climate envelopes. Investigations of such fine-scale processes of biodiversity change through time are possible using paleoenvironmental DNA, which is available much more readily than visible fossils and can provide information at a level of resolution that is not reached in classical palaeoecology.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 1052 
KW  - ecological genetics
KW  - ecological modelling
KW  - palaeoecology
KW  - plant ecology
KW  - climate change
KW  - introgression
KW  - temperature
KW  - treeline
KW  - vegetation
KW  - mitochondrial haplotypes
KW  - Siberian larch
KW  - larch species
KW  - range shifts
KW  - vegetation-climate feedbacks
KW  - ecosystems
KW  - impacts
KW  - dynamics
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-468352
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 1052
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Battarbee, Richard W.
A1  - Lamb, Henry F.
A1  - Bennett, Keith
A1  - Edwards, Mary
A1  - Bjune, Anne E.
A1  - Kaland, Peter E.
A1  - Berglund, Björn E.
A1  - Lotter, André F.
A1  - Seppä, Heikki
A1  - Willis, Kathy J.
A1  - Herzschuh, Ulrike
A1  - Birks, Hilary H.
T1  - John Birks
BT  - pioneer in quantitative palaeoecology
T2  - The Holocene
N2  - We describe the career of John Birks as a pioneering scientist who has, over a career spanning five decades, transformed palaeoecology from a largely descriptive to a rigorous quantitative science relevant to contemporary questions in ecology and environmental change. We review his influence on students and colleagues not only at Cambridge and Bergen Universities, his places of primary employment, but also on individuals and research groups in Europe and North America. We also introduce the collection of papers that we have assembled in his honour. The papers are written by his former students and close colleagues and span many of the areas of palaeoecology to which John himself has made major contributions. These include the relationship between ecology and palaeoecology, late-glacial and Holocene palaeoecology, ecological succession, climate change and vegetation history, the role of palaeoecological techniques in reconstructing and understanding the impact of human activity on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and numerical analysis of multivariate palaeoecological data.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 420 
KW  - climate change
KW  - ecosystem history
KW  - Holocene
KW  - late-glacial
KW  - numerical data analysis
KW  - palaeoecology
KW  - palaeolimnology
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404544
ER  -