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 …

Background Quaternary plant ecology in much of the world has historically relied on
morphological identification of macro-and microfossils from sediments of small freshwater …

Over the last decade, an increasing number of studies have used lake sediment DNA to
trace past landscape changes, agricultural activities or human presence. However, the …

Understanding the historical distributions of species is vital to the conservation and
restoration of native species, yet such information is often qualitative. We show that the …

Paleoenvironmental studies are essential to understand biodiversity changes over long
timescales and to assess the relative importance of anthropogenic and environmental …

The emergence of DNA analyses of lake sediments has opened up many new areas of
inquiry, including the study of taxa that were traditionally not considered in paleolimnology …

Analyses of sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) have increased exponentially over the last decade
and hold great potential to study the effects of anthropogenic stressors on lake biota over …

The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

Environmental DNA studies have proliferated over the last decade, with promising data
describing the diversity of organisms inhabiting aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The …

The study of ancient DNA (aDNA) from sediments (sed aDNA) offers great potential for
paleoclimate interpretation, and has recently been applied as a tool to characterise past …