All life forms across the globe are experiencing drastic changes in environmental conditions
as a result of global climate change. These environmental changes are happening rapidly …

Research over the past decade has shown that quantifying spatial variation in ecosystem
properties is an effective approach to investigating the effects of environmental change on …

DNA is an intelligent data storage medium due to its stability and high density. It has been
used by nature for over 3.5 billion years. Compared with traditional methods, DNA offers …

Environmental DNA is increasingly being used to reconstruct past and present biodiversity
including from freshwater ecosystems. Macrophytes are especially good environmental …

Analyses of ancient DNA typically involve sequencing the surviving short oligonucleotides
and aligning to genome assemblies from related, modern species. Here, we report that skin …

Environmental DNA studies have proliferated over the last decade, with promising data
describing the diversity of organisms inhabiting aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The …

The annual production of strawberry has increased by one million tonnes in the US and 8.4
million tonnes worldwide since 1960. Here we show that the US expansion was driven by …

Over the past quarter century, environmental DNA (eDNA) has been ascendant as a tool to
detect, measure, and monitor biodiversity (species and communities), as a means of …

Paleogenomics continues to yield valuable insights into the evolution, population dynamics,
and ecology of our ancestors and other extinct species. However, DNA sequencing cannot …

Although most ancient DNA studies have focused on the last 50,000 years, paleogenomic
approaches can now reach into the early Pleistocene, an epoch of repeated environmental …