The accurate extraction of species‐abundance information from DNA‐based data
(metabarcoding, metagenomics) could contribute usefully to diet analysis and food‐web …

Metabarcoding of DNA extracted from community samples of whole organisms (whole
organism community DNA, wocDNA) is increasingly being applied to terrestrial, marine and …

The status of pollinating insects is of international concern, but knowledge of the magnitude
and extent of declines is limited by a lack of systematic monitoring. Standardized protocols …

Background More than 80% of all animal species remain unknown to science. Most of these
species live in the tropics and belong to animal taxa that combine small body size with high …

North America has more than 4000 bee species, yet we have little information on the health,
distribution, and population trends of most of these species. In the United States, what …

Resilient pollination services depend on sufficient abundance of pollinating insects over
time. Currently, however, most knowledge about the status and trends of pollinators is based …

Bees are the most important group of insect pollinators, but their populations are declining.
To gain a better understanding of wild bee responses to different stressors (eg land-use …

Temperate hardwood deciduous forest is the dominant landcover in the Northeastern US,
yet its canopy is usually ignored as pollinator habitat due to the abundance of wind …

Develoment of image recognition AI algorithms for flower-visiting arthropods has the
potential to revolutionize the way we monitor pollinators. Ecologists need light-weight …

The nuclear genomes of most animal species include NUMTs, segments of the mitogenome
incorporated into their chromosomes. Although NUMT counts are known to vary greatly …