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 …

The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and
aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely …

The global retreat of glaciers is dramatically altering mountain and high-latitude landscapes,
with new ecosystems develo** from apparently barren substrates,,–. The study of these …

Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is a revolutionary method to monitor marine
biodiversity from animal DNA traces. Examining the capacity of eDNA to provide accurate …

Marine biodiversity can be surveyed using underwater visual censuses and recently with
eDNA metabarcoding. Although a promising tool, eDNA studies have shown contrasting …

Bioinformatic analysis of eDNA metabarcoding data is a crucial step toward rigorously
assessing biodiversity. Many programs are now available for each step of the required …

Current methods for monitoring marine fish (including bony fishes and elasmobranchs)
diversity mostly rely on trawling surveys, which are invasive, costly, and time‐consuming …

Among the most economically relevant and environmentally devastating diseases globally
are those caused by Phytophthora species. In Australia, production losses in agriculture and …

The current biodiversity crisis calls for appropriate methods for assessing biodiversity. In this
respect, environmental DNA (eDNA) holds great promise, especially for aquatic ecosystems …