Marine sediments are important sites for global biogeochemical cycling, mediated by
macrofauna and microalgae. However, it is the microorganisms that drive these key …

Introduction Invertebrate communities are central to many environmental monitoring
programs. In freshwater ecosystems, aquatic macroinvertebrates are collected, identified …

The urge to understand spatial distributions of species and communities and their causative
processes has continuously instigated the development and testing of conceptual models in …

Spatial patchiness is a natural feature that strongly influences the level of species richness
we perceive in surface sediments sampled in the deep-sea. Recent environmental DNA …

Analogous to metagenomics, environmental transcriptomics (metatranscriptomics) retrieves
and sequences environmental mRNAs from a microbial assemblage without prior …

Antarctic benthic ecosystems support high biodiversity but their characterization is limited to
a few well-studied areas, due to the extreme environment and remoteness making access …

Nematodes are suitable indicators for environmental perturbations because their distribution
is closely linked to sediment characteristics. To evaluate whether DNA-based approaches …

Environmental genomics is a promising field for monitoring biodiversity in a timely fashion.
Efforts have increasingly been dedicated to the use of bacteria DNA derived data to develop …

Marine sediment communities are major contributors to biogeochemical cycling and benthic
ecosystem functioning, but they are poorly described, particularly in remote regions such as …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding can rapidly characterize the composition and
diversity of benthic communities, thus it has high potential utility for routine assessments of …