A comparison of sedimentary DNA and pollen from lake sediments in recording vegetation composition at the Siberian treeline

…, LA Pestryakova… - Molecular ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Reliable information on past and present vegetation is important to project future changes,
especially for rapidly transitioning areas such as the boreal treeline. To study past vegetation, …

A pollen-climate transfer function from the tundra and taiga vegetation in Arctic Siberia and its applicability to a Holocene record

…, RJ Telford, B Heim, LA Pestryakova - Palaeogeography …, 2013 - Elsevier
This study aims to establish, evaluate, and apply a modern pollen-climate transfer function
from the transition zone between arctic tundra and light-needled taiga in Arctic Siberia. …

Strong shrub expansion in tundra-taiga, tree infilling in taiga and stable tundra in central Chukotka (north-eastern Siberia) between 2000 and 2017

…, J Schröder, EI Troeva, LA Pestryakova… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation is responding to climate change, which is especially prominent in the Arctic.
Vegetation change is manifest in different ways and varies regionally, depending on the …

Hybridization capture of larch (Larix Mill.) chloroplast genomes from sedimentary ancient DNA reveals past changes of Siberian forest

…, HH Zimmermann, LA Pestryakova… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Siberian larch (Larix Mill.) forests dominate vast areas of northern Russia and contribute
important ecosystem services to the world. It is important to understand the past dynamics of …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene vegetation and plant diversity changes in the north-eastern Siberian treeline region from pollen and sedimentary ancient DNA

…, S Kruse, LA Pestryakova… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Although sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has been increasingly used to study
paleoecological dynamics ( Schulte et al., 2020 ), the approach has rarely been compared with the …

Sedimentary DNA identifies modern and past macrophyte diversity and its environmental drivers in high‐latitude and high‐elevation lakes in Siberia and China

…, W Jia, K Li, X Liu, LA Pestryakova… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic and alpine aquatic ecosystems are changing rapidly under recent global warming,
threatening water resources by diminishing trophic status and changing biotic composition. …

Vegetation, climate and lake changes over the last 7000 years at the boreal treeline in north-central Siberia

J Klemm, U Herzschuh, LA Pestryakova - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Palaeoecological investigations in the larch forest-tundra ecotone in northern Siberia have
the potential to reveal Holocene environmental variations, which likely have consequences …

Paleolimnological studies in Russian northern Eurasia: A review

DA Subetto, LB Nazarova, LA Pestryakova… - … problems of Ecology, 2017 - Springer
This article presents a review of the current data on the level of paleolimnological knowledge
about lakes in the Russian part of the northern Eurasia. The results of investigation of the …

Present-day variability and Holocene dynamics of permafrost-affected lakes in central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) inferred from diatom records

LA Pestryakova, U Herzschuh, S Wetterich… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Thermokarst lakes are assumed to develop cyclically, driven by processes that are triggered
by climate and maintained by internal feedbacks that may trigger lake drainage. However, …

Relative pollen productivity estimates for common taxa of the northern Siberian Arctic

B Niemeyer, J Klemm, LA Pestryakova… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2015 - Elsevier
Pollen productivity estimates (PPE) are used to quantitatively reconstruct variations in
vegetation within a specific distance of the sampled pollen archive. Here, for the first time, PPEs …