Conserving biodiversity in the face of ever-increasing human pressure is hampered by our
lack of basic information on species occurrence, distribution, abundance, habitat …

The genomic revolution has fundamentally changed how we survey biodiversity on earth.
High‐throughput sequencing (“HTS”) platforms now enable the rapid sequencing of DNA …

The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

The global demand for data storage is currently outpacing the world's storage capabilities.
DNA, the carrier of natural genetic information, offers a stable, resource-and energy-efficient …

The analysis of food webs and their dynamics facilitates understanding of the mechanistic
processes behind community ecology and ecosystem functions. Having accurate techniques …

Monitoring communities of fish is important for the management and sustainability of
fisheries and marine ecosystems. Baited remote underwater video systems (BRUVs) are …

Fine‐scale estimation of trophic interactions is an important subject in the field of ecology.
Diet analysis based on fecal DNA metabarcoding has been accepted as a noninvasive …

Claims of extreme survival of DNA have emphasized the need for reliable models of DNA
degradation through time. By analysing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 158 radiocarbon …

The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) in biodiversity assessments offers a step-change in
sensitivity, throughput and simultaneous measures of ecosystem diversity and function …

The precise knowledge of species distribution is a key step in conservation biology.
However, species detection can be extremely difficult in many environments, specific life …