How have studies of ancient DNA from sediments contributed to the reconstruction of Quaternary floras?

Late Quaternary history of North Eurasian Norway spruce (Picea abies) and Siberian spruce (Picea obovata) inferred from macrofossils, pollen and cytoplasmic DNA variation

(2015) Mari Mette Tollefsrud et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The current and future applications of ancient DNA in Quaternary science

(2015) TERENCE A. BROWN et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Reconstructing long-term human impacts on plant communities: an ecological approach based on lake sediment DNA

(2015) Johan Pansu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Lake Store Finnsjøen – a key for understanding Lateglacial/early Holocene vegetation and ice sheet dynamics in the central Scandes Mountains

(2015) Aage Paus et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Lake sediment multi-taxon DNA from North Greenland records early post-glacial appearance of vascular plants and accurately tracks environmental changes

(2015) L.S. Epp et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Using palaeoenvironmental DNA to reconstruct past environments: progress and prospects

(2014) NICOLAS J. RAWLENCE et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

(2014) Eske Willerslev et al.   NATURE

Proxy comparison in ancient peat sediments: pollen, macrofossil and plant DNA

(2014) L. Parducci et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ancient and modern environmental DNA

(2014) Mikkel Winther Pedersen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Challenges in the presentation and analysis of plant-macrofossil stratigraphical data

(2014) H. John B. Birks   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Long livestock farming history and human landscape shaping revealed by lake sediment DNA

(2014) Charline Giguet-Covex et al.   Nature Communications

Use of Pollen and Ancient DNA as Conservation Baselines for Offshore Islands in New Zealand

(2013) JANET M. WILMSHURST et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Use of Ancient Sedimentary DNA as a Novel Conservation Tool for High-Altitude Tropical Biodiversity

(2013) SANNE BOESSENKOOL et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

DNA analysis for section identification of individualPinuspollen grains from Belukha glacier, Altai Mountains, Russia

(2013) Fumio Nakazawa et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

(2013) Alistair W. R. Seddon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A deep dig--hindsight on Holocene vegetation composition from ancient environmental DNA

(2013) Felix Gugerli et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Molecular- and pollen-based vegetation analysis in lake sediments from central Scandinavia

(2013) Laura Parducci et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Amplicon pyrosequencing late Pleistocene permafrost: the removal of putative contaminant sequences and small-scale reproducibility

(2013) Teresita M. Porter et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Analysis of coprolites from the extinct mountain goat Myotragus balearicus

(2013) Frido Welker et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

A comparative study of ancient environmental DNA to pollen and macrofossils from lake sediments reveals taxonomic overlap and additional plant taxa

(2013) Mikkel Winther Pedersen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Thorough assessment of DNA preservation from fossil bone and sediments excavated from a late Pleistocene–Holocene cave deposit on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

(2013) Dalal Haouchar et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

High-Resolution Coproecology: Using Coprolites to Reconstruct the Habits and Habitats of New Zealand’s Extinct Upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus)

(2012) Jamie R. Wood et al.   PLoS One

Ancient biomolecules in Quaternary palaeoecology

(2012) Michael Hofreiter et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

High-throughput sequencing of ancient plant and mammal DNA preserved in herbivore middens

(2012) Dáithí C. Murray et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Representation of flora and vegetation in Quaternary fossil assemblages: known and unknown knowns and unknowns

(2012) Stephen T. Jackson   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Glacial Survival of Boreal Trees in Northern Scandinavia

(2012) L. Parducci et al.   SCIENCE

Population dynamics and genetic changes of Picea abies in the South Carpathians revealed by pollen and ancient DNA analyses

(2011) Enikő K Magyari et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A comparative study of ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and macrofossils from permafrost sediments of northern Siberia reveals long-term vegetational stability

(2011) TINA JØRGENSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evidence of a high-Andean, mid-Holocene plant community: An ancient DNA analysis of glacially preserved remains

(2010) Billie A. Gould et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Using next-generation sequencing for molecular reconstruction of past Arctic vegetation and climate

(2010) J. H. SØNSTEBØ et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Genetic consequences of glacial survival and postglacial colonization in Norway spruce: combined analysis of mitochondrial DNA and fossil pollen

(2008) MARI METTE TOLLEFSRUD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Natural Variability of Greenland Climate, Vegetation, and Ice Volume During the Past Million Years

(2008) A. de Vernal et al.   SCIENCE