List of works by Mary E. Edwards

Ancient environmental DNA reveals shifts in dominant mutualisms during the late Quaternary

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Anthropogenic transitions from forested to human-dominated landscapes in southern Macaronesia

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

Blocking human contaminant DNA during PCR allows amplification of rare mammal species from sedimentary ancient DNA.

scientific article

Effects of Holocene climate change, volcanism and mass migration on the ecosystem of a small, dry island (Brava, Cabo Verde)

scientific article published in 2021

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

scientific article (publication date: 6 February 2014)

Fungal palaeodiversity revealed using high-throughput metabarcoding of ancient DNA from arctic permafrost

scientific article

Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia

scientific article published in March 2012

Influences of sea level changes and volcanic eruptions on Holocene vegetation in Tonga

scientific article published in 2023

Late Pleistocene shrub expansion preceded megafauna turnover and extinctions in eastern Beringia

scientific article

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

scientific article

Long‐term trajectories of non‐native vegetation on islands globally

scientific article published in 2023

Metabarcoding of modern soil DNA gives a highly local vegetation signal in Svalbard tundra

New environmental metabarcodes for analysing soil DNA: potential for studying past and present ecosystems

scientific article

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

scientific article published in Science

Persistence of arctic-alpine flora during 24,000 years of environmental change in the Polar Urals

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Rapid climate changes during the Lateglacial and the early Holocene as seen from plant community dynamics in the Polar Urals, Russia

scientific article published in 2021

Sedimentary ancient DNA shows terrestrial plant richness continuously increased over the Holocene in northern Fennoscandia

scientific article published on 30 July 2021

Taming Fogo Island: Late-Holocene volcanism, natural fires and land use as recorded in a scoria-cone sediment sequence in Cabo Verde

scientific article published in 2023

The maturing relationship between Quaternary paleoecology and ancient sedimentary DNA

scientific article published on 15 June 2020