Summary
Dear sedaDNA enthusiasts,
Hello and welcome to the July newsletter! This past month has been busy for some attending the First International Conference on Palaeogenomics in Stockholm. For those of you who went, I hope that you had a nice time. This past month has also been productive in terms of new papers, with 11 being published and 1 new preprint.
Hope you're having a great month of July,
The organising board
New papers
Aloïs Revéret et al., (2026) published "Stadial–interstadial climate oscillations influence postglacial ecological succession at the southwestern margin of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet: insights from sedimentary ancient DNA" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Scott L. Cocker et al., (2026) published "Latest Pleistocene shrub expansion and steppe-tundra persistence in easternmost Beringia" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Nicole R. Foster et al., (2026) published "A Roadmap for Using Hybridisation Capture–Based Target Enrichment of Ancient Environmental DNA in Palaeoecology" in Molecular Ecology Resources.
Stijn De Schepper et al., (2026) published "Changing sea ice cover led to marine biodiversity shifts in the Late Quaternary" in Communications Earth and Environment.
Emily E. Davis et al., (2026) published "How low can you go? Establishing detection limits for rare eukaryotes in Southern Ocean sedimentary ancient DNA" in Bioinformatics Advances.
Stefano Meucci et al., (2026) published "Glacial refugia, postglacial dynamics, and hybrid zones of Pinaceae in Eurasia captured from sedimentary ancient DNA" in Ecosphere.
Yanrong Zhang et al., (2026) published "Forest expansion and open vegetation responses during the past 14,000 years at Zhagaer Co on the eastern Tibetan Plateau" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Stefanie Knell et al., (2026) published "pr2-Wormifier: A Bioinformatics Pipeline to Create Custom Reference Databases for Improved Metabarcoding of Marine Protists" in Molecular Ecology Resources.
Haoyuan Zhang et al., (2026) published "Warm Current Intensification Altered Phytoplankton Communities in the Yellow Sea: Insights from Sedimentary Ancient DNA Metabarcoding" in ISME Communications.
Wenji Li et al., (2026) published "Millennial-scale lags in plant assembly are associated with topographic connectivity on the eastern Tibetan Plateau" in Communications Earth and Environment.
Mathisse Meyneng et al., (2026) published "Coastal ecosystem degradation driven by decades of unregulated terrestrial mining" in Communications Earth and Environment.
Preprints
Madeline Slimp et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "First Plant sedaDNA assemblage from California reveals ecological stability throughout 10,000 years of human presence at Lake Elsinore" available on BioRxiv Preprint repository.
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