Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments, Volume 6 Sedimentary DNA

About this book

This book provides an overview of the applications of sedimentary DNA-based approaches to palaeolimnological studies. These approaches have shown considerable potential in providing information about the long-term changes of overall biodiversity in lakes and their watersheds in response to natural and anthropogenic changes, as well as tracking human migrations over the last thousands of years.

Although the first studies investigating the preservation of these molecular proxies in sediments originated in the late 1990s, the number of scientific publications on this topic has increased greatly over the last five years. Alongside numerous ecological findings, several sedimentary DNA studies have been dedicated to understanding the reliability of this approach to reconstruct past ecosystem changes. Despite the major surge of interest, a comprehensive compilation of sedimentary DNA approaches and applications has yet to be attempted. The overall aim of this Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research volume is to fill this knowledge gap.

Contents

Chapter 1. Using lake sedimentary DNA to reconstruct biodiversity changes
Chapter 2. The sources and fates of lake sedimentary DNA
Chapter 3. The sedimentary ancient DNA workflow
Chapter 4. Bacterial and archaeal DNA from lake sediments
Chapter 5. Cyanobacterial DNA from lake sediments
Chapter 6. Protist DNA from lake sediments
Chapter 7. Diatom DNA from lake sediments
Chapter 8. Aquatic vegetation DNA from lake sediments
Chapter 9. Aquatic animal DNA from lake sediments
Chapter 10. Terrestrial plant DNA from lake sediments
Chapter 11. Terrestrial fauna and hominin DNA from sedimentary archives
Chapter 12. An overview of biodiversity and network modeling approaches: applications to sedimentary DNA records
Chapter 13. Perspectives and future developments within sedimentary DNA research

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Biography

Eric Capo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umea University (Umea, Sweden). Dr Capo is the founder and the coordinator of the sedaDNA Scientific Society.

Cécilia Barouillet is a postdoctoral researcher at UMR CARRTEL INRAE (Thonon-les-Bains, France). Dr Barouillet is vice-president - communication of the International Society of Limnology (SIL) and on the board of the sedaDNA Scientific Society.

John P. Smol is a Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Biology at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada), with a cross-appointment at the School of Environmental Studies. He co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL). Prof. Smol is editor of the journal Environmental Reviews and is the founding editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology.