Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

T Cordier, L Alonso‐Sáez… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A decade after environmental scientists integrated high‐throughput sequencing
technologies in their toolbox, the genomics‐based monitoring of anthropogenic impacts on …

A new way to contemplate Darwin's tangled bank: how DNA barcodes are reconnecting biodiversity science and biomonitoring

M Hajibabaei, DJ Baird, NA Fahner… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Encompassing the breadth of biodiversity in biomonitoring programmes has been frustrated
by an inability to simultaneously identify large numbers of species accurately and in a timely …

Large-scale biomonitoring of remote and threatened ecosystems via high-throughput sequencing

JF Gibson, S Shokralla, C Curry, DJ Baird, WA Monk… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Biodiversity metrics are critical for assessment and monitoring of ecosystems threatened by
anthropogenic stressors. Existing sorting and identification methods are too expensive and …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on the link between ecosystem services and biodiversity: the assessment of the nursery function

C Liquete, N Cid, D Lanzanova, B Grizzetti… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
The relationship between biodiversity and each ecosystem service or bundle of ecosystem
services (eg win− win, win− lose or win− neutral) is an active field of research that requires …

Food webs reveal coexistence mechanisms and community organization in carnivores

Q Lu, C Cheng, L **ao, J Li, X Li, X Zhao, Z Lu, J Zhao… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Globally, massive carnivore guild extirpations have led to trophic downgrading and
compromised ecosystem services. However, the complexity of multi-carnivore food webs …

Biomonitoring for the 21st century: integrating next-generation sequencing into ecological network analysis

SAP Derocles, DA Bohan, AJ Dumbrell… - Advances in ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Ecological network analysis (ENA) provides a mechanistic framework for describing
complex species interactions, quantifying ecosystem services, and examining the impacts of …

The adaptive capacity of lake food webs: from individuals to ecosystems

BC McMeans, KS McCann, TD Tunney… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic ecosystems support size structured food webs, wherein predator‐prey body sizes
span orders of magnitude. As such, these food webs are replete with extremely generalized …

A simple model predicts how warming simplifies wild food webs

EJ O'Gorman, OL Petchey, KJ Faulkner, B Gallo… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Warming increases the metabolic demand of consumers, strengthening their feeding
interactions. This could alter energy fluxes,–and even amplify extinction rates within the food …

Warming indirectly simplifies food webs through effects on apex predators

EJ O'Gorman, L Zhao, RL Kordas, S Dudgeon… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Warming alters ecosystems through direct physiological effects on organisms and indirect
effects via biotic interactions, but their relative impacts in the wild are unknown due to the …

Identifying plant mixes for multiple ecosystem service provision in agricultural systems using ecological networks

FM Windsor, J Tavella, DC Rother… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Managing agricultural environments in a way that maximises the provision of multiple
ecosystem services is a significant challenge in the development of sustainable and secure …