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 …

Metagenomic sequencing now represents a common, powerful approach for investigating
diversity and functional relationships in marine ecosystems. High-throughput datasets …

Microbes in marine sediments constitute a large percentage of the global marine ecosystem
and function to maintain a healthy food web. In continental shelf habitats such as the Gulf of …

Alongside a primary productivity gradient between the Galicia Bank region in the Northeast
Atlantic and the more oligotrophic eastern Mediterranean Basin, we investigated the …

Microbial composition and diversity in marine sediments are shaped by environmental,
biological, and anthropogenic processes operating at different scales. However, our …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys are a promising alternative to traditional monitoring of
invasive species, rare species, and biodiversity. Detecting organism‐specific eDNA reduces …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has been widely employed to describe
biological communities in the marine environment and to compare the richness and diversity …

The acquisition of biodiversity data is of prime importance to perform an efficient ecosystem
management and ensure the sustainable provisioning of marine ecosystem services …

DNA metabarcoding of freshwater communities typically relies on PCR amplification of a
fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene with degenerate primers …

Recent DNA-based phylogenetic studies have reported high eukaryotal diversities in a wide
range of settings including samples obtained from anoxic environments. However, parallel …