Summary
Dear sedaDNA enthusiasts,
Hello and welcome to the August newsletter! I hope that you are all doing well and have had an enjoyable July. This newsletter we are happy to present 9 new papers and 6 pre-prints.
Hope you have a good August,
The organising board
New papers
Johann Michael Köhler et al., (2026) published "Soil Bacterial Communities as Indicators of Anthropogenic Impact: Insights from an Early Medieval Settlement Pit Beneath the Church of Golmsdorf (Germany)" in Applied Sciences.
Dilli Prasad Rijal et al., (2026) published "Bryophyte sedimentary ancient DNA as a proxy for environmental change in northern Fennoscandia" in Ecological Indicators.
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.
Rannveig Þórhallsdóttir (2026) published "Interpreting sedaDNA: A More-Than-Human Perspective from Seyðisfjörður, Iceland" in Norwegian Archaeological Review.
Rannveig Þórhallsdóttir (2026) published "Microbes from Floor and Wall Layers at a Viking Age and Medieval Farm in Iceland Reveal Living Conditions, Human Respiratory Diseases and the Presence of Domestic Animals" in Environmental Archaeology.
Aylin Koseler et al., (2026) published "Assessment of Microbial Genomes Isolated from Ancient City Stratonikeia in Western Anatolia and Speculations on Human Activities and Environmental Interactions " in Diversity.
Nele Manon Vollmar et al., (2026) published "Modern Southern Ocean sea ice environments are reflected in eukaryotic DNA from the sea floor " in Marine Micropaleontology.
Sushmita Singh et al., (2026) published "Hydrocarbons and genomic biomarker-based paleoclimate and ecological variability over the past 15 kyr from Toli Lake, Garhwal Himalaya" in the Quaternary Science Reviews.
Viktor Dinkel et al., (2026) published "Past subarctic marine food web shifts recovered by sedaDNA and network analysis" in Scientific Reports.
Preprints
Rui Martiniano et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals Late Pleistocene faunal connectivity between Ireland and Eurasia" available on BioRxiv.
Heike H. Zimmermann et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "Fingerprints of Holocene climate on the functional trait diversity of Arctic marine biota" available on Research Square.
Ulrike Herzschuh et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "Paleo-grounded biodiversity foundation models for long-horizon species distribution forecasting" available on Fronteirs.
Maya Lemmon-Kishi et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "Molecular Clock Dating of Ancient Environmental DNA Reveals Damage Beyond Deamination" available on BioRxiv.
Elena Baños et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "Ideas and perspectives: Using meta-omics to unravel biogeochemical changes from cell to planetary scales" available on BioRxiv.
Maria Landolfi et al., (2026) submitted the preprint "Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals rhizosphere-like plant–microbe association signals in a 2-million-year-old Arctic ecosystem" available on BioRxiv.
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