Luidmila A. Pestryakova

The paper examines millennial-scale changes in plant metacommunity connectivity in Beringia using sedimentary DNA from lake cores, revealing shifts driven by climate and landscape changes.

The paper uses ancient metagenomics to show that loss of large mammals disrupted seed dispersal, contributing to mammoth-steppe collapse and informing Arctic rewilding.

This study reconstructs Holocene wildfire dynamics in eastern Siberia and finds that human land management significantly influenced fire patterns, particularly in the Late Holocene.