Environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized ecological research, particularly for
biodiversity assessment in various environments, most notably aquatic media …

Global biodiversity is declining at an ever-increasing rate. Yet effective policies to mitigate or
reverse these declines require ecosystem condition data that are rarely available …

Current environmental monitoring efforts often focus on known, regulated contaminants
ignoring the potential effects of unmeasured compounds and/or environmental factors …

Monitoring environmental status through molecular investigation of microorganisms in the
marine environment is suggested as a potentially very effective method for biomonitoring …

Background Marine benthic prokaryotic communities play crucial roles in material recycling
within coastal environments, including coral reefs. Coastal sedimentary microbiomes are …

Currently implemented biomonitoring and bioassessment are an indispensable part of river
management worldwide. Although DNA-based biomonitoring is a promising tool for …

Phytoplankton is a key biological group used to assess the ecological status of lakes. The
classical monitoring approach relies on microscopic identification and counting of …

Microorganisms in the sediment play a pivotal role in the functioning and stability of
seagrass ecosystems and their dynamics are influenced by the nutrient acquisition …

DNA metabarcoding has been performed on a large number of river phytobenthos samples
collected from the UK, using rbcL primers optimised for diatoms. Within this dataset the …

Coral reef ecosystems in the Persian Gulf are frequently exposed to crude oil spills. We
investigated benthic bacterial and eukaryote community structures at such coral reef sites …