Bilde av Alsos, Inger Greve
Bilde av Alsos, Inger Greve
Professor in biology The Arctic University Museum of Norway inger.g.alsos@uit.no +4777620796

Inger Greve Alsos


Job description

Prof. Alsos uses ancient sedimentary DNA to study climate and human impact on past ecosystem diversity, species persistence, and ecosystem build-up in arctic and alpine regions. She has also assembled large-scale genome-skims of vascular plants which greatly improves species identification in eDNA studies. Her research group is currently moving towards full-ecosystems reconstruction providing new data on the past diversity of a range of organisms in terrestrial and marine environments.


  • 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 ARKIV / 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 ARKIV / 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
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / 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
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Kurt H. Kjær, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Bianca De Sanctis, Binia De Cahsan, Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Christian S. Michelsen et al.:
    A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA
    Nature 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Antony Brown, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Peter D. Heintzman, Charlotte, L. Clarke, Hans Peter Blankholm, Helge Irgens Høeg et al.:
    Paleoeconomy more than demography determined prehistoric human impact in Arctic Norway
    PNAS Nexus 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Maria Ariza Salazar, Bertrand Fouks, Quentin Mauvisseau, Rune Halvorsen, Inger Greve Alsos, Hugo de Boer :
    Plant biodiversity assessment through soil eDNA reflects temporal and local diversity
    Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12. April 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Aya Komatsu, Elisabeth Cooper, Inger Greve Alsos, Antony Brown :
    Towards a Jōmon food database: construction, analysis and implications for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
    World archaeology 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Dorothee Ehrich, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Nigel Yoccoz, Peter D. Heintzman et al.:
    Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia
    Science Advances 28. September 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jan Smyčka, Cristina Roquet, Martí Boleda, Adriana Alberti, Frédéric Boyer, Rolland Douzet et al.:
    Tempo and drivers of plant diversification in the European mountain system
    Nature Communications 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Antony Brown, Thierry Fonville, Maarten Van Hardenbroek, Graeme Cavers, Anne Crone, Finbar Mccormick et al.:
    New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
    Antiquity 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lieveke van Vugt, Sandra Garces Pastor, Erika Gobet, Sarah Brechbühl, Antonietta Knetge, Youri Lammers et al.:
    Pollen, macrofossils and sedaDNA reveal climate and land use impacts on Holocene mountain vegetation of the Lepontine Alps, Italy
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Samuel M Hudson, Clive Waddington, Ben Pears, Natalie Ellis, Luke Parker, Derek Hamilton et al.:
    Lateglacial and Early Holocene palaeoenvironmental change and human activity at Killerby Quarry, North Yorkshire, UK
    Journal of Quaternary Science 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ancient DNA reveals patterns of postglacial plant and animal colonization of N Fennoscandia
    2024 OMTALE
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Northern ecosystem reconstruction using ancient sedimentary DNA
    2024 OMTALE
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ancient DNA reveals patterns of postglacial plant colonization of Fennoscandia
    2023 OMTALE
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Contribution of ancient sedimentary DNA to understand island biology
    2023 OMTALE
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ecosystem reconstruction using ancient sedimentary DNA
  • 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
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Going north - the post-glacial arrival of animals in N Fennoscandia in relation to vegetation changes
    2023 OMTALE
  • Dilli Prasad Rijal, Inger Greve Alsos :
    From mud to phylogeny: Late Quaternary phylogenetic diversity of terrestrial plants in northern Fennoscandia
    2023
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ecosystem reconstructions using ancient sedimentary DNA
    2023 OMTALE
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Reconstructing past communities and environments using sedaDNA: where are we now?
    2022 OMTALE
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Post-glacial species arrival and diversity build-up of northern ecosystems took millennia
    2022 OMTALE
  • Youri Lammers, Pierre Taberlet, Eric Coissac, Lucas Dane Elliott, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Iva Pitelkova et al.:
    Multiplexing markers: Increasing the amount of data that can be obtained from a single amplification reaction
    2022
  • Dilli Prasad Rijal, Arve Elvebakk, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ancient DNA of bryophytes: current status and future potential
    2022
  • Yucheng Wang, Ana Prohaska, Haoran Dong, Adriana Alberti, Inger Greve Alsos, David W. Beilman et al.:
    Reply to: When did mammoths go extinct?
    Nature 2022 DOI
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Hugo de Boer, Aino Laila Johanna Hosia, Elisabeth Stur, Aina Mærk Aspaas et al.:
    Lessons learned from NorBOL: Opportunities and challenges building reference libraries of marine, freshwater and terrestrial biotas
    2022
  • Alexandra Rouillard, Mikkel W. Pedersen, Yucheng Wang, Marie-Louise Siggaard-Andersen, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Carsten Mejer-Jacob et al.:
    The role of climate and foodweb dynamics in Holocene microbial processing of CH4 in Arctic lakes
    2022
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    High taxonomic resolution of sedimentary ancient DNA allows detailed reconstruction of postglacial species arrival and ecosystem build-up
    2022
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Urgammelt DNA - kilde til ny kunnskap
    2022
  • Anders Schomacker, Alexandra Rouillard, Marie Bulinová, Inger Greve Alsos, Andrew Hodson, Kurt H. Kjær :
    PolarCH4ives: Reconstructing long-term methane cycling from Arctic lakes
    2022
  • Inger Greve Alsos :
    Ancient sedimentary DNA reveals past dispersal and ecosystem build up
    2022
  • Kjørstad elise, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Disse plantene var de første som dukket opp i Nord-Norge etter siste istid
    29. September 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Yucheng Wang, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Inger Greve Alsos, Bianca De Sanctis, Fernando Racimo, Ana Prohaska et al.:
    Author Correction: Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics (Nature, (2021), 600, 7887, (86-92), 10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x)
    Nature 2022 DOI

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    Teaching

    Post docs:

    Marieke-Lise Beaulieu (2023-2025): IceAGenT: IceAge Genomic Tracking of Refugia and Postglacial Dispersal

    Youri Lammers (2019-2023): 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:

    Diego Brambilla (2023-2027): Domestication of reindeer (PI Galina Gusarova)

    Hedvig Elisabeth Mjøen (2022-2026): Genomic basis of eco-evolutionary responses to changing environments in Arctic plant-herbivore systems (PI Galina Gusarova)

    Mary Lucas (2022-2026): Archeogenomics (PI Tony Brown)

    Alois Nicholas Revéret (2021-2025): 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-): 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-): ECOGEN: Ecosystem change and species persistence over time: a genome-based approach 

    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