Lake sedimentary DNA research on past terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity: Overview and recommendations

E Capo, C Giguet-Covex, A Rouillard, K Nota… - Quaternary, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and
aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely …

[HTML][HTML] A 24,000-year ancient DNA and pollen record from the Polar Urals reveals temporal dynamics of arctic and boreal plant communities

CL Clarke, IG Alsos, ME Edwards, A Paus… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract A 24,000-year record of plant community dynamics, based on pollen and ancient
DNA from the sediments (sedaDNA) of Lake Bolshoye Shchuchye in the Polar Ural …

Marine ecosystem shifts with deglacial sea-ice loss inferred from ancient DNA shotgun sequencing

HH Zimmermann, KR Stoof-Leichsenring… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Sea ice is a key factor for the functioning and services provided by polar marine ecosystems.
However, ecosystem responses to sea-ice loss are largely unknown because time-series …

Potential plant extinctions with the loss of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe

J Courtin, KR Stoof-Leichsenring, S Lisovski… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Abstract During the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, the dominant mammoth steppe
ecosystem across northern Eurasia vanished, in parallel with megafauna extinctions …

The treasure vault can be opened: Large-scale genome skimming works well using herbarium and silica gel dried material

IG Alsos, S Lavergne, MKF Merkel, M Boleda… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Genome skimming has the potential for generating large data sets for DNA barcoding and
wider biodiversity genomic studies, particularly via the assembly and annotation of full …

Environmental genomics of Late Pleistocene black bears and giant short-faced bears

MW Pedersen, B De Sanctis, NF Saremi, M Sikora… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Analysis of ancient environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized our ability to describe
biological communities in space and time, 1–3 by allowing for parallel sequencing of DNA …

Pleistocene glacial and interglacial ecosystems inferred from ancient DNA analyses of permafrost sediments from Batagay megaslump, East Siberia

J Courtin, A Perfumo, AA Andreev, T Opel… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pronounced glacial and interglacial climate cycles characterized northern ecosystems
during the Pleistocene. Our understanding of the resultant community transformations and …

Holocene vegetation and plant diversity changes in the north-eastern Siberian treeline region from pollen and sedimentary ancient DNA

S Liu, KR Stoof-Leichsenring, S Kruse… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Although sedimentary ancient DNA (sed aDNA) has been increasingly used to study
paleoecological dynamics, the approach has rarely been compared with the traditional …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals past ecosystem and biodiversity changes on the Tibetan Plateau: Overview and prospects

W Jia, S Anslan, F Chen, X Cao, H Dong… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alpine ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau are being threatened by ongoing climate
warming and intensified human activities. Ecological time-series obtained from sedimentary …

Environmental palaeogenomic reconstruction of an Ice Age algal population

Y Lammers, PD Heintzman, IG Alsos - Communications Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Palaeogenomics has greatly increased our knowledge of past evolutionary and ecological
change, but has been restricted to the study of species that preserve either as or within …