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Noregs arktiske universitetsmuseum inger.g.alsos@uit.no +4777620796 Tromsø

Inger Greve Alsos

Job description

Alsos leder laboratoriet for urgammelt DNA ved Tromsø Museum. Hennes primære forskningsområde er arktisk botanikk med særlig fokus på hvordan planter reagerer på klimaendringer. Forskningsgruppen jobber med å rekonstruere hvordan økosystemer (planter og dyr) har utviklet seg fra siste istids maksimum og frem til i dag.

  • Wootton, Lara M., Boucher, Florian C., Pouchon, Charles, Roquet, Cristina, Coissac, Eric, Renaud, Julien et al.:
    The late rise of sky-island vegetation in the European Alps | Nature Plants
    Nature Plants 02. juin 2025 DOI
  • Dilli Prasad Rijal, Kari Anne Bråthen, Antony Brown, Peter D. Heintzman, Inger Greve Alsos, Nigel Yoccoz :
    Millennia of Metacommunity Diversification and Homogenization Captured by Sedimentary Ancient DNA
    Ecology Letters 22. septembre 2025 DOI
  • Anastasia Poliakova, Matthias Lenz, Martin Melles, Grigory Fedorov, Marie K. F. Merkel, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Vegetation and environmental dynamics in the central part of the Kola Peninsula during the past 13.3 ka as reflected by ancient plant DNA on sediments from Lake Imandra
    Journal of Quaternary Science 23. juin 2025 DOI
  • Maïlys Picard, Jordan Von Eggers, Katie A. Brasell, Dongna Yan, Jonatan Klaminder, Inger Greve Alsos et al.:
    Using DNA archived in lake sediments to reconstruct past ecosystems
    01. janvier 2025 DOI
  • Ben Pears, Sam Hudson, Andreas Lang, Lisa Snape, Chiara Bahl, Marie Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Late Holocene sedimentation and palaeoagronomy in a carbonate dry valley system using OSL, sedaDNA and geochemistry: Implications for understanding anthropogenic slope-sediment transfer in fluvial headwaters
    Geomorphology 01. décembre 2025 DOI
  • Sébastien Lavergne, Charles Pouchon, Cristina Roquet, Adriana Alberti, Martí Boleda, Christophe Perrier et al.:
    Towards a comprehensive barcoding and phylogenomic reference for the European arctic–alpine flora
    Botany Letters 17. septembre 2025 DOI
  • Lucas Dane Elliott, Frédéric Boyer, Teo Lemane, Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac :
    wholeskim: Utilising Genome Skims for Taxonomically Annotating Ancient DNA Metagenomes
    Molecular Ecology Resources 21. juillet 2025 DOI
  • Christian Brochmann, Cassandra Elphinstone, Siri Birkeland, Hajime Ikeda, Pernille B. Eidesen, Inger G. Alsos et al.:
    Phylogeography of Arctic plants: where are we after 35 years, and where to go?
    Plant Ecology & Diversity 29. octobre 2025 DOI
  • Tulug Gulce Ataman, Youri Lammers, Inger Greve Alsos, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Antony Brown :
    Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation | Communications Earth & Environment
    Communications Earth & Environment 24. septembre 2025 DOI
  • Samuel James Walker, Aurélie Boilard, Mona Henriksen, Edana Lord, Marius Robu, Jan-Pieter Buylaert et al.:
    A 75,000-y-old Scandinavian Arctic cave deposit reveals past faunal diversity and paleoenvironment
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 04. août 2025 DOI
  • Brandon Samuel Whitley, Jakob Abermann, Inger Greve Alsos, Elisabeth Mackteld Biersma, Viktor Gårdman, Toke Thomas Høye et al.:
    Harmonising digitised herbarium data to enhance biodiversity knowledge: Major steps towards an updated checklist for the flora of Greenland
    Plants, People, Planet 2025 DOI
  • Antony Brown, Mary Lucas, Inger Greve Alsos, Bastian Fromm, S. Hudson :
    The sedaDNA revolution and archaeology: Progress, challenges, and a research agenda
    Journal of Archaeological Science 2025 DOI
  • Lara M. Wootton, Florian C. Boucher, Charles Pouchon, Cristina Roquet, Eric Coissac, Julien Renaud et al.:
    The late rise of sky-island vegetation in the European Alps
    Nature Plants 2025 DOI
  • John R. Stewart, Inger Greve Alsos, Antony Brown, Love Dalén, Peter D. Heintzman :
    The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2025 DOI
  • Sandra Garces Pastor, Peter D. Heintzman, Scarlett Zetter, Youri Lammers, Nigel Yoccoz, Jean-Paul Theurillat et al.:
    Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity
    Nature Communications 2025 DOI
  • Jérémy Courtin, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Simeon Lisovski, Ying Liu, Inger Greve Alsos, Boris K. Biskaborn et al.:
    Potential plant extinctions with the loss of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe
    Nature Communications 2025 DOI
  • Irene Julián-Posada, Graciela Gil-Romera, Sandra Garces Pastor, Peter D. Heintzman, Daniel Gómez, Federico Fillat et al.:
    Neolithic pastoralism and plant community interactions at high altitudes of the Pyrenees, southern Europe
    Communications Earth & Environment 2025 DOI
  • Youri Lammers, Pierre Robert Michel Taberlet, E. Coissac, Lucas Dane Elliott, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Iva Pitelkova et al.:
    Multiplexing PCR allows the identification of within-species genetic diversity in ancient eDNA
    Molecular Ecology Resources 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Pierre Guenzi-Tiberi, Benjamin Istace, Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac, Sébastien Lavergne, Jean-Marc Aury et al.:
    LocoGSE, a sequence-based genome size estimator for plants
    Frontiers in Plant Science 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Scarlett Poppy Saunders Hovey Zetter, Sandra Garces Pastor, Youri Lammers, Antony Gavin Brown, Kevin Walsh, Tomasz Goslar et al.:
    SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps
    The Holocene 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Anastasia Poliakova, Antony Gavin Brown, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Exotic pollen in sediments from the high Arctic Lake Tenndammen, Svalbard archipelago: diversity, sources, and transport pathways
    Palynology 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Victor Boussange, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Marieke-Lise Beaulieu, Antony Gavin Brown, Ulrike Herzschuh et al.:
    Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Roseanna J. Mayfield, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Peter D. Heintzman, Peter G. Langdon, Dirk N. Karger, Antony Gavin Brown et al.:
    Holocene summer temperature reconstruction from plant sedaDNA and chironomids from the northern boreal forest
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • J. Sakari Salonen, Niina Kuosmanen, Inger Greve Alsos, Peter D. Heintzman, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Frederik Schenk et al.:
    Uncovering Holocene climate fluctuations and ancient conifer populations: Insights from a high-resolution multi-proxy record from Northern Finland
    Global and Planetary Change 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Charlotte L. Clarke, Peter D. Heintzman, Youri Lammers, Alistair J. Monteath, Nancy H. Bigelow, Joshua D. Reuther et al.:
    Steppe-tundra composition and deglacial floristic turnover in interior Alaska revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA)
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Anastasia Poliakova, Antony Gavin Brown, Tomasz Goslar, Inger Greve Alsos :
    75. Lake Tenndammen, Colesdalen, Nordenskiöld Land, western Svalbard (Spitsbergen) archipelago
    Grana 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • C. Patrick Doncaster, Mary E. Edwards, Charlotte L. Clarke, Inger Greve Alsos :
    The drivers of plant community composition have shifted from external to internal processes over the past 20,000 years
    Communications Earth & Environment 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Aloïs Nicolas Revéret, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Peter D. Heintzman, Antony Gavin Brown, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: The potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments
    Freshwater Biology 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Lucas Dane Elliott, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Antony Brown, Jostein Bakke, Lasse Topstad, Peter D. Heintzman et al.:
    Sedimentary Ancient DNA Reveals Local Vegetation Changes Driven by Glacial Activity and Climate
    Quaternary 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • John W. Williams, Trisha L. Spanbauer, Peter D. Heintzman, Jessica Blois, Eric Capo, Simon J. Goring et al.:
    Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics
    Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2023 DOI
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Victor Boussange, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Marieke-Lise Beaulieu, Antony Gavin Brown, Ulrike Herzschuh et al.:
    Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change
    Research Square 2023 DOI
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Use of sedaDNA to reconstruct impact of climate and humans on ecosystems
    16. mai 2025
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ecosystem drivers and niche changes inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA
    13. février 2025 DOI
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Herbivore niche change with increased herbivore-plant network complexity over 16 millennia
    10. avril 2025 DOI
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ecosystem drivers and niche changes inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA
    03. juin 2025 DOI
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ecosystem Drivers and Niche Changes Inferred from Sedimentary Ancient DNA
    29. mai 2025 DOI
  • Maïlys Picard, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Anders Schomacker, Inger Greve Alsos, Meifang Zhong, Stefan Bertilsson et al.:
    Reconstituting the impact of rising anoxia with paleoecology - an Arctic and local case study
    2025
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Plant-herbivore networks through time in northern Fennoscandia revealed using sedaDNA
    03. septembre 2024 DOI
  • Dilli Prasad Rijal, Peter D. Heintzman, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Antony Gavin Brown, Inger Greve Alsos, Kari Anne Bråthen :
    Millennia of spatiotemporal plant diversity trajectories captured by sedimentary ancient DNA
    2024
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Northern ecosystem reconstruction using ancient sedimentary DNA
    2024 SAMMENDRAG / OMTALE
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ancient DNA reveals patterns of postglacial plant and animal colonization of N Fennoscandia
    2024 SAMMENDRAG / OMTALE
  • Galina Gusarova, Hedvig Elisabeth Mjøen, Magali Corti, Frédéric Mahé, Pernille Meyer, Lilja Steinthorsdottir et al.:
    Bridging past and present: From dietary metabarcoding of large herbivores towards broad scale biodiversity analyses
    2024
  • Pierre Guenzi-Tiberi, Benjamin Istace, Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac, Sébastien Lavergne, Jean-Marc Aury et al.:
    Corrigendum: LocoGSE, a sequence-based genome size estimator for plants(Front. Plant Sci., (2024), 15, (1328966), 10.3389/fpls.2024.1328966)
    Frontiers in Plant Science 2024 DOI
  • Youri Lammers, Eric Coissac, Pierre Taberlet, Adriana Alberti, France Denoeud, Lucas Dane Elliott et al.:
    The PhyloNorway project: a Norwegian vascular plant genome reference set and applications.
    2023
  • Dilli Prasad Rijal, Peter D. Heintzman, Arve Elvebakk, Inger Greve Alsos :
    What else is in the mud? Current status and future potential of environmental DNA in bryophyte research
    2023
  • Dilli Prasad Rijal, Inger Greve Alsos :
    From mud to phylogeny: Late Quaternary phylogenetic diversity of terrestrial plants in northern Fennoscandia
    2023
  • Scarlett Poppy Saunders Hovey Zetter, Sandra Garces Pastor, Youri Lammers, Andreas Tribsch, Antony Gavin Brown, Eric Coissac et al.:
    Ancient DNA metabarcoding uncovers the effects of climate change and human impact on Austrian sub-alpine lake, Großer Winterleitensee
    2023
  • Sandra Garces Pastor, Peter D. Heintzman, Scarlett Poppy Saunders Hovey Zetter, Antony Gavin Brown, Youri Lammers, Boris Vanniere et al.:
    Impact of climate and domesticated mammals on Holocene plant richness in the European Alps revealed by sedaDNA
    2023
  • Youri Lammers, Pierre Taberlet, Eric Coissac, Lucas Dane Elliott, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Iva Pitelkova et al.:
    Tracing species lineages through time and space using multiplexing PCRs
    2023
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ecosystem reconstruction using ancient sedimentary DNA
    2023 FULLTEKST / SAMMENDRAG / OMTALE

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    Research interests

    Prosjekter:

    Teaching

    Post docs:

    Lucas Elliott (2024-): IceAge Genomic Tracking of Refugia and Postglacial Dispersal

    Nichola Stranberg (2024-) ArcEcoGen - Arctic Ecosystem Genomics

    Marieke-Lise Beaulieu (2023-): IceAGenT - IceAge Genomic Tracking of Refugia and Postglacial Dispersal  

    Youri Lammers (2019-): IceAGenT -  IceAge Genomic Tracking of Refugia and Postglacial Dispersal

    Anastasia Poliakova (2019-2021): Future ArcTic Ecosystems (FATE): drivers of diversity and future scenarios from ethnoecology, contemporary ecology and ancient DNA

    Sandra Garcés Pastor (2018-2022): ECOGEN - Ecosystem change and species persistence over time: a genome-based approach

    Dilli Prasad Rijal (2017-2020 ): ECOGEN - Ecosystem change and species persistence over time: a genome-based approach

    Per Sjögren (2014-2017): AfterIce: Ancient DNA of NW Europe reveals responses to climate change

    Tina Jørgensen (2012-2013): AfterIce: Ancient DNA of NW Europe reveals responses to climate change

     

    Doktorgradsstudenter:

    Yuan Pan (2024-): IceAGenT: IceAge Genomic Tracking of Refugia and Postglacial Dispersal / Changing Arctic Research School

    Hedvig Elisabeth Mjøen (2022-): Genomic basis of eco-evolutionary responses to changing environments in Arctic plant-herbivore systems (PI Galina Gusarova)

    Mary Lucas (2022-): Archeogenomics (PI Tony Brown)

    Alois Nicholas Revéret (2021-): Sedimentary ancient DNA in Arctic lakes: towards a full-ecosystem reconstruction since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Tulug Gülce Ataman: The taphonomy of DNA in lakes and small catchments (PI Tony Brown)

    Lucas Elliott (2019-2024): IceAge Genomic Tracking of Refugia and Postglacial Dispersal

    Lasse Topstad (2019-): IceAGenT: IceAge Genomic Tracking of Refugia and Postglacial Dispersal

    Aya Komatsu (2019-): Jomon Environemntal Archaeology and Diet and a Comparison with Northern Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers (h-g-fs). (PI Tony Brown, Tromsø Museum)

    Scarlett Zetter (2019-2025): Echos of the past: Finding the secrets of ancient ecosystems using sedaDNA (ECOGEN project)

    Sam Hudson (2019-2022): (PI Tony Brown)

    María Ariza (2018-2022): Taxon identification and multispecies coalescent plant biodiversity assessments (Plant.ID project, University of Oslo, PI Hugo de Boer) 

    Physilia Chua (2018-2021): Shotgun sequencing for comparative diet analysis of capercaillies (Plant.ID project, University of Copenhagen, PI Kristine Bohmann)

    Aythya Young (2017-2022): Insects, post glacial colonisation and refugia in northern Norway (Edinburgh University, PI Eva Panagiotakopulu)

    Youri Lammers (2016-2020): Sedimentary ancient DNA: Exploring methods of ancient DNA analyses for different taxonomical groups

    Charlotte Clark (2016-2019): (University of Southampton, PI Mary E. Edwards) 

    Dilli Prasad Rijal (2012-2016): Invasive Heracleum in Northern Europe: Introduction history and impact on native plant diversity

    Chris Ware (2011-2015): Shipping in polar waters: Introduction of marine invasive species through ballast water and biofouling

    Teppo Rämä (2010-2014): Diversity of marine wood-inhabiting fungi in North-Norway (PI Geir Mathiassen)

    Eike Müller (2008-2011): Dispersal and recruitment in the Arctic: studies of migration and germination in arctic-alpine vascular plants

    Kristine Westergaard (2006-2010): Disjunctly distributed arctic-alpine plant species – phylogeography and conservation genetics in a changing world

    ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8610-1085

    Member of research group

    Foodways, lifeways and climate change   Norsk innhold IceAGenT   English content ECOGEN – Ecosystem change   Norsk innhold ARCWAYS   English content NEAT   English content ArcEcoGen – Arctic Ecosystem Genomics   English content Changing Arctic   English content

    Member of project

    Genomics and archaeology of reindeer domestication and its impact on the Northern human diets and ecosystems of the past Arctic Greening: using ancient DNA to determine responses of willows and birches to climate changes