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 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 …

Advances in DNA sequencing technology have revolutionized the field of molecular analysis
of trophic interactions, and it is now possible to recover counts of food DNA sequences from …

Soil microbes comprise a large portion of the genetic diversity on Earth and influence a large
number of important ecosystem processes. Increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition …

Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

While high-throughput sequencing methods are revolutionizing fungal ecology, recovering
accurate estimates of species richness and abundance has proven elusive. We sought to …

Microorganisms play a crucial role in the biological decomposition of plant litter in terrestrial
ecosystems. Due to the permanently changing litter quality during decomposition, studies of …

The purpose of this review is to present the most common and emerging DNA‐based
methods used to generate data for biodiversity and biomonitoring studies. As environmental …

16S ribosomal RNA currently represents the most important target of study in bacterial
ecology. Its use for the description of bacterial diversity is, however, limited by the presence …

With recent methodological advances, molecular markers are increasingly used for semi-
quantitative analyses of fungal communities. The aim to preserve quantitative relationships …