[HTML][HTML] Past, present, and future perspectives of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding: A systematic review in methods, monitoring, and applications of global …

KM Ruppert, RJ Kline, MS Rahman - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a novel method of assessing biodiversity
wherein samples are taken from the environment via water, sediment or air from which DNA …

How many species of insects and other terrestrial arthropods are there on Earth?

NE Stork - Annual review of entomology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In the last decade, new methods of estimating global species richness have been developed
and existing ones improved through the use of more appropriate statistical tools and new …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental DNA–An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity

PF Thomsen, E Willerslev - Biological conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework

MR Marselle, T Hartig, DTC Cox, S De Bell… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is a cornerstone of human health and well-being. However, while evidence of
the contributions of nature to human health is rapidly building, research into how biodiversity …

[BOOK][B] Environmental DNA: For biodiversity research and monitoring

P Taberlet, A Bonin, L Zinger, E Coissac - 2018 - books.google.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to DNA that can be extracted from environmental
samples (such as soil, water, feces, or air) without the prior isolation of any target organism …

Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

P Theodorou, R Radzevičiūtė, G Lentendu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Urbanisation is an important global driver of biodiversity change, negatively impacting some
species groups whilst providing opportunities for others. Yet its impact on ecosystem …

Can DNA-based ecosystem assessments quantify species abundance? Testing primer bias and biomass—sequence relationships with an innovative metabarcoding …

V Elbrecht, F Leese - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Metabarcoding is an emerging genetic tool to rapidly assess biodiversity in ecosystems. It
involves high-throughput sequencing of a standard gene from an environmental sample and …

Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data

GF Ficetola, J Pansu, A Bonin… - Molecular ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is increasingly used to study the present and
past biodiversity. eDNA analyses often rely on amplification of very small quantities or …

Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems

F Lombard, E Boss, AM Waite, M Vogt, J Uitz… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In this paper we review the technologies available to make globally quantitative
observations of particles in general—and plankton in particular—in the world oceans, and …

DNA metabarcoding and the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I marker: not a perfect match

BE Deagle, SN Jarman, E Coissac… - Biology …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
DNA metabarcoding enables efficient characterization of species composition in
environmental DNA or bulk biodiversity samples, and this approach is making significant …