Biodiversity is declining at alarming rates worldwide and large-scale monitoring is urgently
needed to understand changes and their drivers. While classical taxonomic identification of …

The aim of this study is to generate a first global overview of pressures and methods used to
assess the environmental quality of rivers and streams using macroinvertebrates. In total …

Ecological assessment of lakes and rivers using benthic diatom assemblages currently
requires considerable taxonomic expertise to identify species using light microscopy. This …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is raising expectations for biomonitoring of
organisms that have hitherto been neglected. To bypass current limitations in taxonomic …

DNA metabarcoding is increasingly used as a tool to assess biodiversity in research and
environmental management. Powerful analysis software exists to process raw data …

Macroinvertebrate assemblages are the most common bioindicators used for stream
biomonitoring, yet the standard approach exhibits several time‐consuming steps, including …

Macroinvertebrate communities are crucial for biodiversity monitoring and assessment of
ecological status in stream ecosystems. However, traditional monitoring approaches require …

DNA metabarcoding can accelerate research on insect diversity, as it is cheap and fast
compared to manual sorting and identification. Most metabarcoding protocols require …

Molecular-based approaches can provide timely biodiversity assessments, showing an
immense potential to facilitate decision-making in marine environmental management …

DNA metabarcoding of macroinvertebrates is increasingly used for aquatic bioassessment
and-monitoring. A major strength of metabarcoding is the high taxonomic resolution …