• Fish out of water: Consumers’ unfamiliarity with the appearance of commercial fish species 

      Cusa, Marine; Falcao, Luara; De Jesus, Joseph; Biolatti, Cristina; Blondeel, Lancelot; Bracken, Fiona S. A.; Devriese, Lisa; Garces Pastor, Sandra; Minoudi, Styliani; Gubili, Chrysoula; Acutis, Pier Luigi; Mariani, Stefano (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-15)
      Seafood labels play an increasingly key role in assisting consumers in purchasing processed and featureless fish products, and in encouraging sustainable fishing and aquaculture practices. While informed purchasing choices are typically influenced by traceability and labelling awareness, they also depend on the consumers’ ability to identify and discriminate the fish species available on the market, ...
    • High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change 

      Garces Pastor, Sandra; Alsos, Inger Greve; Coissac, Eric; Lavergne, Sébastien; Schwörer, Christoph; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Heintzman, Peter D.; Wangensteen, Owen S.; Tinner, Willy; Rey, Fabian; Heer, Martina; Rutzer, Astrid; Walsh, Kevin; Lammers, Youri; Brown, Antony G.; Goslar, Tomasz; Rijal, Dilli P.; Karger, Dirk N.; Pellissier, Loïc; Heiri, Oliver (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-04)
      The European Alps are highly rich in species, but their future may be threatened by ongoing changes in human land use and climate. Here, we reconstructed vegetation, temperature, human impact and livestock over the past ~12,000 years from Lake Sulsseewli, based on sedimentary ancient plant and mammal DNA, pollen, spores, chironomids, and microcharcoal. We assembled a highly-complete local DNA ...
    • Modern Analogue Approach Applied to High-Resolution Varved Sediments - A Synthesis for Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees) 

      Vegas-Vilarrúbia, Teresa; Rull, Valentí; Trapote, Maria del Carmen; Cao, Min; Rosell-Melé, Antoni; Buchaca, Teresa; Gomà, Joan; López, Pilar; Sigró, Javier; Safont, Elisabet; Cañellas-Boltà, Núria; Garces Pastor, Sandra; Giralt, Santiago; Corella, Juan Pablo; Pérez-Zanón, Núria (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-02)
      In Quaternary paleosciences, the rationale behind analogical inference presupposes that former processes can be explained by causes operating now, although their intensity and rates can vary through time. In this paper we synthesised the results of different modern analogue studies performed in a varved lake. We discuss their potential value to obtain best results from high resolution past records. ...
    • Pollen, macrofossils and sedaDNA reveal climate and land use impacts on Holocene mountain vegetation of the Lepontine Alps, Italy 

      van Vugt, Lieveke; Garces Pastor, Sandra; Gobet, Erika; Brechbühl, Sarah; Knetge, Antonietta; Lammers, Youri; Stengele, Katja; Alsos, Inger Greve; Tinner, Willy; Schwörer, Christoph (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-10)
      Both climate change and anthropogenic disturbance affect vegetation composition, but it is difficult to separate these drivers of vegetation change from one another. A better understanding of past vegetation dynamics is necessary to disentangle the influence of different forcing factors and assess future vegetation change. Here we present the first multi-proxy palaeoecological study combining ...