Long livestock farming history and human landscape shaping revealed by lake sediment DNA

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Giguet Covex, Charline ^a,b   Pansu, Johan ^a   Arnaud, Fabien ^b   Rey, Pierre Jérôme ^b   Griggo, Christophe ^b   Gielly, Ludovic ^a   Domaizon, Isabelle ^c   Coissac, Eric ^a   David, Fernand ^d   Choler, Philippe ^a,e   Poulenard, Jérôme ^b   Taberlet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UMR CARRTEL   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALDER; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; DNA BARCODING; FRANCE; HISTORY; HORSE; HUMAN; LAKE; PINE; SEDIMENT; SHEEP; TREE;

ALNUS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FRANCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HORSES; HUMANS; LAKES; PINUS; SHEEP; TREES;

EID: 84893842342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4211     Document Type: Article

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