Conserving biodiversity in the face of ever-increasing human pressure is hampered by our
lack of basic information on species occurrence, distribution, abundance, habitat …

Global biodiversity loss is unprecedented, and threats to existing biodiversity are growing.
Given pervasive global change, a major challenge facing resource managers is a lack of …

Background The recent blooming of metabarcoding applications to biodiversity studies
comes with some relevant methodological debates. One such issue concerns the treatment …

Robust assessments of taxonomic and functional diversity are essential components of
research programmes aimed at understanding current biodiversity patterns and forecasting …

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

Although metabarcoding is a well-established tool for describing diversity of pelagic
communities, its quantitative value is still controversial, with poor correlations previously …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is emerging as a novel, objective tool for
monitoring marine metazoan biodiversity. Zooplankton biodiversity in the vast open ocean is …

Marine biodiversity is threatened by human activities. To understand the changes
happening in aquatic ecosystems and to inform management, detailed, synoptic monitoring …

In the marine realm, biomonitoring using environmental DNA (eDNA) of benthic
communities requires destructive direct sampling or the setting‐up of settlement structures …

Science-based management of marine fisheries and effective ecosystem monitoring both
require the analysis of large amounts of often complex and difficult to collect information …