Beringian flora and fauna from sedaDNA at Duvanny Yar, Sakha Republic, during marine isotope stages 2 and 3

Acknowledgements: We thank Piotr Danilov, James Haile, Tina Jorgensen, David Alquezar, and Alexei Tikhonov for their efforts in the field, and Sergey, Nikolai, and Natasha Zimov for logistic support in the field and at Cherskiy Field Station. Gregorii Savinov also supported the field team. The late Stas Gubin provided JM with helpful advice on yedoma. Scott Armbruster contributed thoughtful ideas regarding palaeoecological interpretation. H.M. and Y.W. were supported by the NSFC BSCTPES Project (No. 41988101), the CAS Youth Interdisciplinary Team Fund, the Carlsberg Foundation (CF18-0024), the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF174), and the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF24SA0092560). Shotgun data analysis was supported by the National Key Scientific and Technological Infrastructure project “Earth System Numerical Simulation Facility” (EarthLab, 2023-EL-ZD-000111) and SMU’s Center for Research Computing. Original fieldwork and sample analysis (MEE and JM) was funded by ECOCHANGE (EU grant GOCE-2006-036866). The team who initially dated, processed and archived the samples and data that are re-used in this study are Heather Binney, Eric Coissac, Ludovic Gielly, Tomasz Goslar, James Haile and Mari Moora. Christian Brochmann, Pierre Taberlet and Eske Willerslev were the PIs of ECOCHANGE.