Ulrike Herzschuh

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 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.

The paper predicts future Arctic plant distributions under climate change, finding that dispersal limitations and climate suitability declines will shape vegetation composition changes by 2100.

This study analyzes vegetation compositional resilience over 8,000 years using fossil pollen records, identifying anthropogenic land use as the main driver of decline since 1.6 to 4.4 thousand years ago.

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

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 investigates the delayed incursion of H5N1 avian influenza in Antarctica by analyzing surveillance data from before confirmed cases.

This paper uses ancient metagenomics and network analysis to show that cryosphere loss over 18,000 years drove ecosystem shifts in the Tibetan Plateau, refuting top-down herbivore control and highlighting keystone plant species.