Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring

R Van Klink, T August, Y Bas, P Bodesheim… - Trends in ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, but their small size and high diversity
have always made them challenging to study. Recent technological advances have the …

Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

To denoise or to cluster, that is not the question: optimizing pipelines for COI metabarcoding and metaphylogeography

A Antich, C Palacin, OS Wangensteen, X Turon - BMC bioinformatics, 2021 - Springer
Background The recent blooming of metabarcoding applications to biodiversity studies
comes with some relevant methodological debates. One such issue concerns the treatment …

Environmental DNA metabarcoding serves as a promising method for aquatic species monitoring and management: A review focused on its workflow, applications …

M Zhang, Y Zou, S **ao, J Hou - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine and freshwater biodiversity is under threat from both natural and manmade causes.
Biological monitoring is currently a top priority for biodiversity protection. Given present …

Metabarcoding reveals high‐resolution biogeographical and metaphylogeographical patterns through marine barriers

A Antich, C Palacín, J Zarcero… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim It has been predicted that there should be concordance between biogeographical and
phylogeographical processes structuring multi‐species regional assemblages. We …

DNA metabarcoding reveals differences in distribution patterns and ecological preferences among genetic variants within some key freshwater diatom species

J Pérez-Burillo, R Trobajo, M Leira, F Keck… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Our study evaluates differences in the distribution and ecology of genetic variants within
several ecologically important diatom species that are also key for Water Framework …

Estimating the genetic diversity of Pacific salmon and trout using multigene eDNA metabarcoding

K Weitemier, BE Penaluna, LL Hauck… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic diversity underpins species conservation and management goals, and ultimately
determines a species' ability to adapt. Using freshwater environmental DNA (eDNA) …

Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a …

V Noguerales, E Meramveliotakis… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in driving
metacommunity structure across mountainous regions remains challenging, as the way we …

Seasonal turnover in community composition of stream‐associated macroinvertebrates inferred from freshwater environmental DNA metabarcoding

M Reinholdt Jensen, E Egelyng Sigsgaard… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Macroinvertebrate communities are crucial for biodiversity monitoring and assessment of
ecological status in stream ecosystems. However, traditional monitoring approaches require …

Existing approaches and future directions to link macroecology, macroevolution and conservation prioritization

A Zizka, CD Barratt, CD Ritter, T Joerger‐Hickfang… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to increasing human transformation of virtually all habitats on Earth, setting global
priorities for conservation is essential. The emerging disciplines of macroecology and …