Indonesia is one of the ten member states of the economically and politically diverse
regional organization of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Southeast …

Insects are crucial for ecosystem health but climate change and pesticide use are driving
massive insect decline. To mitigate this loss, we need new and effective monitoring …

Recently reported insect declines have raised both political and social concern. Although
the declines have been attributed to land use and climate change, supporting evidence …

This book represents a synthesis of knowledge and best practice in the field of DNA-based
biomonitoring at the time of writing. It has been written with end-users of molecular tools in …

Background Analysis of species count data in ecology often requires normalization to an
identical sample size. Rarefying (random subsampling without replacement), which is the …

DNA metabarcoding is a technique used to survey biodiversity in many ecological settings,
but there are doubts about whether it can provide quantitative results, that is, the proportions …

Rapid changes of the biosphere observed in recent years are caused by both small and
large scale drivers, like shifts in temperature, transformations in land-use, or changes in the …

Tropical forest recovery is fundamental to addressing the intertwined climate and
biodiversity loss crises. While regenerating trees sequester carbon relatively quickly, the …

Although DNA metabarcoding is an attractive approach for monitoring biodiversity, it is often
difficult to detect all the species present in a bulk sample. In particular, sequence recovery …

Trophic interactions are a fundamental part of ecosystems; yet, most ecological studies focus
on single trophic levels and this hampers our ability to detect the underlying mechanisms …