November 2025 Newsletter

Summary

Dear sedaDNA enthusiasts,

Hello and welcome to the November newsletter! There are 9 papers to read in this newsletter. As always, please get in contact if you have a new paper, position or recently graduated a PhD using the links at the bottom of this newsletter.

Hoping you have a good and productive November,

The organising board



New papers

Antonio Castellano-Hinojosa et al., (2025) published "Temporal succession of bacterial and archaean communities in a Mediterranean high-mountain lake over the last 430 years using sedimentary DNA in Microbial Ecology.

Carter K Clinton et al., (2025) published "Persistent human-associated microbial signatures in burial soils from the 17th and 18th century New York African Burial Ground" in ISME Communications.

Dilli P Rijal et al., (2025) published "Millennia of Metacommunity Diversification and Homogenization Captured by Sedimentary Ancient DNA" in Ecology Letters.

Giada Bolognesi et al., (2025) published "Optimizing ancient DNA recovery from archaeological plant seeds" in Scientific Reports.

Laurence Lemer et al., (2025) published "Neolithic societies and landscape transformations in northwestern France: A high-resolution multi-proxy study including sedimentary DNA" in Quaternary Science Reviews.

Sameh Mesallum (2025) published "Biological recycling theory: a cyclic network framework for evolutionary innovation and recovery" Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Sandra Nogué et al., (2025) published "Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems" in Nature Reviews Biodiversity.

Sébastien Lavergne et al., (2025) published "Towards a comprehensive barcoding and phylogenomic reference for the European arctic–alpine flora" in Botany Letters.

Tuluğ Gülce Ataman et al., (2025) published " Sedimentary DNA from lake depocenters maximizes detection of catchment vegetation" in Communications Earth & Environment.


Preprints


New Positions



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