Kathleen R. Stoof‐Leichsenring

The paper uses sedimentary ancient DNA to show microbial priming influences terrestrial carbon burial in marine sediments by altering organic matter degradation pathways.

The paper develops the genC pipeline to estimate taxonomically resolved organic carbon sources in lake sediments and finds that environmental conditions, especially warming, drive OC variation, with terrestrial sources dominating.

This study uses sedimentary ancient DNA and pollen records to show that forest expansion during the Holocene altered alpine plant communities, and late Holocene cooling did not restore late Glacial communities but created a distinct ecosystem state.

This study compares metabarcoding, shotgun sequencing, and capture probes for detecting plant taxa in lake sediments, finding metabarcoding has the lowest false positive rate and highest detection rate.

This study uses sedimentary ancient DNA to reconstruct ancient viral communities in lake and marine environments over the last glacial cycle, revealing stable virus-host relationships and environmental influences.

This study uses ancient DNA analysis to show that Phaeocystis blooms contributed to carbon drawdown during the Antarctic Cold Reversal, linking sea-ice changes to productivity shifts.

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.

The paper reconstructs plant interactions over 24,000 years in the Arctic, showing a shift from positive to negative interactions with woody encroachment.

This study uses ancient DNA from marine sediments to infer dynamic land-plant carbon sources during the Last Glacial-Holocene transition, revealing vegetation dynamics and translocation patterns.

The paper retrieves mitochondrial genomes of extinct Pleistocene megafauna from recent sediment layers in Siberian lakes, showing that permafrost thawing affects aeDNA preservation and stratigraphic signal.