List of works - Inger G. Alsos

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

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

Agricultural Terraces As DNA Archives and Implications for Terrace Archaeology

An AFLP clock for absolute dating of shallow-time evolutionary history--too good to be true?

scientific article

Ancient plant DNA in lake sediments.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 08 April 2021

Annual plants colonizing the Arctic? Phylogeography and genetic variation in the Euphrasia minima complex (Orobanchaceae)

scientific article published on February 2012

Biological introduction risks from shipping in a warming Arctic

article

Characterization of 14 microsatellite markers for Silene acaulis (Caryophyllaceae)(1). ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Climate change, non-indigenous species and shipping: assessing the risk of species introduction to a high-Arctic archipelago

article

Clitellate worms (Annelida) in lateglacial and Holocene sedimentary DNA records from the Polar Urals and northern Norway

Comparative analyses of plastid and AFLP data suggest different colonization history and asymmetric hybridization between Betula pubescens and B. nana

scientific article published on 18 July 2015

Conservation Genetics and Population History of Betula nana, Vaccinium uliginosum, and Campanula rotundifolia in the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard

article

DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

article

Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: The potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments

Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: the potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments

Exotic pollen in sediments from the high Arctic Lake Tenndammen, Svalbard archipelago: diversity, sources, and transport pathways

scientific article published in 2024

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

scientific article (publication date: 6 February 2014)

Frequency of local, regional, and long-distance dispersal of diploid and tetraploid Saxifraga oppositifolia (Saxifragaceae) to Arctic glacier forelands

scientific article

Frequent long-distance plant colonization in the changing Arctic

scientific article

Fungi Sailing the Arctic Ocean: Speciose Communities in North Atlantic Driftwood as Revealed by High-Throughput Amplicon Sequencing

scientific article

Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants

scientific article (publication date: 22 May 2012)

Genetic diversity and distinctiveness in Scottish alpine plants

article

Genetic roadmap of the Arctic: plant dispersal highways, traffic barriers and capitals of diversity.

scientific article

Germinability of arctic plants is high in perceived optimal conditions but low in the field

article

Germinating seeds or bulbils in 87 of 113 tested Arctic species indicate potential for ex situ seed bank storage

article

Giant invasive Heracleum persicum: Friend or foe of plant diversity? ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 May 2017

Glacial survival may matter after all: nunatak signatures in the rare European populations of two west-arctic species

scientific article

Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia

scientific article published in March 2012

High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

scientific article published on 4 November 2022

Holocene floristic diversity and richness in northeast Norway revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sed aDNA) and pollen

Humans introduce viable seeds to the Arctic on footwear

article published in 2011

Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations

scientific article published on 14 February 2021

Lake sedimentary DNA accurately records 20th Century introductions of exotic conifers in Scotland ⬇️

scientific article

Larix species range dynamics in Siberia since the Last Glacial captured from sedimentary ancient DNA

scientific article published in 2022

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

scientific article

Living on the edge: Conservation genetics of seven thermophilous plant species in a High Arctic archipelago

scientific article

Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

scientific article

Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect

scientific article

Metabarcoding lake sediments: taphonomy and representation of contemporary vegetation in environmental DNA (eDNA) records

article

Metabarcoding of modern soil DNA gives a highly local vegetation signal in Svalbard tundra

Metagenomics: A viable tool for reconstructing herbivore diet

scientific article published on 10 May 2021

Microsatellite Markers for Heracleum persicum (Apiaceae) and Allied Taxa: Application of Next-Generation Sequencing to Develop Genetic Resources for Invasive Species Management

article

No divergence in Cassiope tetragona: persistence of growth response along a latitudinal temperature gradient and under multi-year experimental warming

scientific article published on 14 June 2012

Nuclear vs. plastid data: complex Pleistocene history of a circumpolar key species.

scientific article

Paleoeconomy more than demography determined prehistoric human impact in Arctic Norway

scholarly article

Past Arctic aliens have passed away, current ones may stay

article published in 2015

Past and future range shifts and loss of diversity in dwarf willow (Salix herbaceaL.) inferred from genetics, fossils and modelling

article

Past climate-driven range shifts and population genetic diversity in arctic plants

article

Persistence of arctic-alpine flora during 24,000 years of environmental change in the Polar Urals

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Plant DNA metabarcoding of lake sediments: How does it represent the contemporary vegetation.

scientific article

Plant biodiversity assessment through soil eDNA reflects temporal and local diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Plant recruitment in the High Arctic: Seed bank and seedling emergence on Svalbard

article

Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia

scholarly article

Range shifts and global warming: ecological responses ofEmpetrum nigrumL. to experimental warming at its northern (high Arctic) and southern (Atlantic) geographical range margin

article

Reconstructing the invasion history of Heracleum persicum (Apiaceae) into Europe

scientific article published on 10 October 2015

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

scientific article published in 2023

Sedimentary ancient DNA from Lake Skartjørna, Svalbard: Assessing the resilience of arctic flora to Holocene climate change

article

Sedimentary ancient DNA shows terrestrial plant richness continuously increased over the Holocene in northern Fennoscandia

scientific article published on 30 July 2021

Seed bank size and composition of Betula nana, Vaccinium uliginosum, and Campanula rotundifolia habitats in Svalbard and northern Norway

article

Stay or go – how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

article

Tetraploids do not form cushions: association of ploidy level, growth form and ecology in the High Arctic Saxifraga oppositifolia L. s. lat. (Saxifragaceae) in Svalbard

scientific article published in 2013

The Treasure Vault Can be Opened: Large-Scale Genome Skimming Works Well Using Herbarium and Silica Gel Dried Material

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The diet of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard, Norway, inferred from scat analysis

article

The drivers of plant community composition have shifted from external to internal processes over the past 20,000 years

scientific article published in 2023

The dynamic past and future of arctic vascular plants: climate change, spatial variation and genetic diversity

article

The extreme Beringian/Atlantic disjunction in Saxifraga rivularis (Saxifragaceae) has formed at least twice

article by Kristine Bakke Westergaard et al published 2 March 2010 in Journal of Biogeography

The impact of temperature regimes on development, dormancy breaking and germination of dwarf shrub seeds from arctic, alpine and boreal sites

article

The regional species richness and genetic diversity of Arctic vegetation reflect both past glaciations and current climate

scientific article published in 2016

The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic

scientific article

Towards a Jōmon food database: construction, analysis and implications for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

scientific article published in 2022

Trans-Atlantic genetic uniformity in the rare snowbed sedge Carex rufina

Twenty of the most thermophilous vascular plant species in Svalbard and their conservation state

article

Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change

scientific article published on 8 April 2024

Vegetation exploitation by barnacle geese Branta leucopsis during incubation on Svalbard

scientific article published in 1998

Where did the northern peatland species survive the dry glacials: cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) as an example

article

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

List of works by Inger G. Alsos

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

Agricultural Terraces As DNA Archives and Implications for Terrace Archaeology

An AFLP clock for absolute dating of shallow-time evolutionary history--too good to be true?

Ancient plant DNA in lake sediments.

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

Annual plants colonizing the Arctic? Phylogeography and genetic variation in the Euphrasia minima complex (Orobanchaceae)

Biological introduction risks from shipping in a warming Arctic

Characterization of 14 microsatellite markers for Silene acaulis (Caryophyllaceae)(1). ⬇️

Climate change, non-indigenous species and shipping: assessing the risk of species introduction to a high-Arctic archipelago

Clitellate worms (Annelida) in lateglacial and Holocene sedimentary DNA records from the Polar Urals and northern Norway

Comparative analyses of plastid and AFLP data suggest different colonization history and asymmetric hybridization between Betula pubescens and B. nana

Conservation Genetics and Population History of Betula nana, Vaccinium uliginosum, and Campanula rotundifolia in the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard

DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: The potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments

Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: the potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments

Exotic pollen in sediments from the high Arctic Lake Tenndammen, Svalbard archipelago: diversity, sources, and transport pathways

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

Frequency of local, regional, and long-distance dispersal of diploid and tetraploid Saxifraga oppositifolia (Saxifragaceae) to Arctic glacier forelands

Frequent long-distance plant colonization in the changing Arctic

Fungi Sailing the Arctic Ocean: Speciose Communities in North Atlantic Driftwood as Revealed by High-Throughput Amplicon Sequencing

Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants

Genetic diversity and distinctiveness in Scottish alpine plants

Genetic roadmap of the Arctic: plant dispersal highways, traffic barriers and capitals of diversity.

Germinability of arctic plants is high in perceived optimal conditions but low in the field

Germinating seeds or bulbils in 87 of 113 tested Arctic species indicate potential for ex situ seed bank storage

Giant invasive Heracleum persicum: Friend or foe of plant diversity? ⬇️

Glacial survival may matter after all: nunatak signatures in the rare European populations of two west-arctic species

Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia

High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

Holocene floristic diversity and richness in northeast Norway revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sed aDNA) and pollen

Humans introduce viable seeds to the Arctic on footwear

Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations

Lake sedimentary DNA accurately records 20th Century introductions of exotic conifers in Scotland ⬇️

Larix species range dynamics in Siberia since the Last Glacial captured from sedimentary ancient DNA

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Living on the edge: Conservation genetics of seven thermophilous plant species in a High Arctic archipelago

Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect

Metabarcoding lake sediments: taphonomy and representation of contemporary vegetation in environmental DNA (eDNA) records

Metabarcoding of modern soil DNA gives a highly local vegetation signal in Svalbard tundra

Metagenomics: A viable tool for reconstructing herbivore diet

Microsatellite Markers for Heracleum persicum (Apiaceae) and Allied Taxa: Application of Next-Generation Sequencing to Develop Genetic Resources for Invasive Species Management

No divergence in Cassiope tetragona: persistence of growth response along a latitudinal temperature gradient and under multi-year experimental warming

Nuclear vs. plastid data: complex Pleistocene history of a circumpolar key species.

Paleoeconomy more than demography determined prehistoric human impact in Arctic Norway

Past Arctic aliens have passed away, current ones may stay

Past and future range shifts and loss of diversity in dwarf willow (Salix herbaceaL.) inferred from genetics, fossils and modelling

Past climate-driven range shifts and population genetic diversity in arctic plants

Persistence of arctic-alpine flora during 24,000 years of environmental change in the Polar Urals

Plant DNA metabarcoding of lake sediments: How does it represent the contemporary vegetation.

Plant biodiversity assessment through soil eDNA reflects temporal and local diversity

Plant recruitment in the High Arctic: Seed bank and seedling emergence on Svalbard

Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia

Range shifts and global warming: ecological responses ofEmpetrum nigrumL. to experimental warming at its northern (high Arctic) and southern (Atlantic) geographical range margin

Reconstructing the invasion history of Heracleum persicum (Apiaceae) into Europe

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

Sedimentary ancient DNA from Lake Skartjørna, Svalbard: Assessing the resilience of arctic flora to Holocene climate change

Sedimentary ancient DNA shows terrestrial plant richness continuously increased over the Holocene in northern Fennoscandia

Seed bank size and composition of Betula nana, Vaccinium uliginosum, and Campanula rotundifolia habitats in Svalbard and northern Norway

Stay or go – how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

Tetraploids do not form cushions: association of ploidy level, growth form and ecology in the High Arctic Saxifraga oppositifolia L. s. lat. (Saxifragaceae) in Svalbard

The Treasure Vault Can be Opened: Large-Scale Genome Skimming Works Well Using Herbarium and Silica Gel Dried Material

The diet of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard, Norway, inferred from scat analysis

The drivers of plant community composition have shifted from external to internal processes over the past 20,000 years

The dynamic past and future of arctic vascular plants: climate change, spatial variation and genetic diversity

The extreme Beringian/Atlantic disjunction in Saxifraga rivularis (Saxifragaceae) has formed at least twice

The impact of temperature regimes on development, dormancy breaking and germination of dwarf shrub seeds from arctic, alpine and boreal sites

The regional species richness and genetic diversity of Arctic vegetation reflect both past glaciations and current climate

The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic

Towards a Jōmon food database: construction, analysis and implications for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Trans-Atlantic genetic uniformity in the rare snowbed sedge Carex rufina

Twenty of the most thermophilous vascular plant species in Svalbard and their conservation state

Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change

Vegetation exploitation by barnacle geese Branta leucopsis during incubation on Svalbard

Where did the northern peatland species survive the dry glacials: cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) as an example

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️