Open AccessMammoths Lost Their Steppe Habitat to Climate Change
Author(s) -
Elise Cutts
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2021eo210622
Subject(s) - steppe , habitat , geography , climate change , ecology , physical geography , environmental science , archaeology , biology
Ancient plant and animal DNA buried in Arctic sediments preserve a 50,000-year history of Arctic ecosystems, suggesting that climate change contributed to mammoth extinction.