Inger Greve Alsos

Sedimentary ancient DNA analysis from the Iron Age courtyard and cooking pit site of Rodskjaer in Troms, Northern Norway

This study uses sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding to analyze Iron Age courtyard and cooking pit sites, identifying plant and animal taxa and highlighting challenges from bioturbation and root penetration.

The Muskox Way: Humans, plants and animals in northeast Greenland through the Holocene

The paper uses sedimentary ancient DNA to analyze the timing of plant and animal arrivals in northeast Greenland, showing muskox arrived before humans and environmental changes coincided with cultural periods.

Capture probe, metabarcoding, or shotgun sequencing: which best reflects local vegetation?

This study compares metabarcoding, shotgun sequencing, and capture probes for detecting plant taxa in lake sediments, finding metabarcoding has the lowest false positive rate and highest detection rate.

Dynamic sedimentary ancient DNA models of Fennoscandic Holocene plant communities reveal the role of temperature and competition

This study uses sedimentary ancient DNA data from 10 lakes in Fennoscandia to model Holocene plant community dynamics, showing that temperature and competition, especially shading, significantly influence community structure.

Maximizing vegetation representation of the catchment in sedimentary DNA with targeted cores in small lakes

This study shows that central-core samples in small lakes capture more taxonomic richness than marginal samples, improving sedimentary DNA-based vegetation representation.

Harmonising digitised herbarium data to enhance biodiversity knowledge: creating an updated checklist for the flora of Greenland.

This paper presents a workflow to harmonize digitized herbarium data, resulting in a more accurate checklist of Greenland's flora with increased species richness and occurrence records.

Towards the extended barcode concept: Generating DNA reference data through genome skimming of danish plants

The paper generates DNA reference data for 184 Danish plant species using genome skimming, enhancing molecular identification capabilities and improving species resolution in metagenomic studies.

Environmental palaeogenomic reconstruction of an Ice Age algal population

This paper uses shotgun metagenomics to reconstruct population genomic data for the algae Nannochloropsis from lake sediment samples dated to the Last Glacial Maximum.