Two-million-year-old microbial communities from the Kap Kobenhavn Formation in North Greenland
A. Fernandez-Guerra, L. Wörmer, G. Borrel…·E. Willerslev
This paper reconstructs microbial communities from 2-million-year-old permafrost in Greenland, finding similarities to modern thawing permafrost microbes and suggesting microbial communities may signal climate change impacts before plants and animals.