Marine eukaryote community responses to the climate and oceanographic changes in Storfjordrenna (southern Svalbard) over the past 14.0 kyr BP: Insights from sedimentary ancient DNA analysis

Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) metabarcoding is an emerging method to reconstructing the response of marine organisms to past climate and oceanographic changes, including rare and non-fossilized taxa. Marine sedaDNA records from the Arctic are scarce, especially those focusing on the impact of environmental shifts on the biodiversity and functional composition of marine eukaryotes communities. Here, we present a sedaDNA eukaryotic record from the sediment core retrieved in Storfjordrenna, southern Svalbard.