Late Glacial to Holocene additional data from The role of sea ice for vascular plant dispersal in the Arctic

Sea ice has been suggested to be an important factor for dispersal of vascular plants in the Arctic. To assess its role for postglacial colonisation in the North Atlantic region, we compiled data on the first Late Glacial to Holocene occurrence of vascular plant species in East Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Svalbard. For each record, we reconstructed likely past dispersal events using data on species distributions and genetics. We compared these data to sea-ice reconstructions to evaluate the potential role of sea ice in these past colonisation events and finally evaluated these results using a compilation of driftwood records as an independent source of evidence that sea ice can disperse biological material. Our results show that sea ice was in general more prevalent along the most likely dispersal routes at times of assumed first colonisation than along other possible routes. Also, driftwood is frequently dispersed in regions that have sea ice today. Thus, sea ice may act as an important dispersal agent. Melting sea ice may hamper future dispersal of Arctic plants and thereby cause more genetic differentiation. It may also limit the northwards expansion of competing boreal species, and hence favour the persistence of Arctic species

PAGES2k_v2.0.0-ts.pklz

Python-readable data structur

Quality-control dashboards, South America

Quality-control dashboards for South American record

Loading instructions

in GitHub Markdown format<div><br></div><div>Change note [5 April 2019]: Original instructions in LoadData.md are now obsolete, following updates to the LiPD utilities. The instructions now point to recently published Jupyter notebooks that illustrate how to use the PAGES 2k LiPD files to reproduce some figures from the paper, or carry out other analyses.<br></div

Quality-control dashboards, Arctic

Quality-control dashboards for Arctic record

HADCRUT4.2 temperature data

Matlab data file containing the GraphEM- infilled version of HadCRUT4.

PAGES2k_v2.0.0_LiPD.zip

Original records in the Linked Paleo Data (http://wiki.linked.earth/Linked_Paleo_Data) forma

Quality-control dashboards for ocean records

Quality-control dashboards for ocean record