Environmental DNA metabarcoding is gaining momentum as a time and cost-effective tool
for biomonitoring and environmental impact assessment. Yet, its use as a replacement for …

Extracellular DNA has been reported to comprise a large fraction of total DNA in near-
seafloor sediment. However, the potential effect of extracellular DNA, arising from dead or …

Invertebrate biodiversity measured at mostly family level is widely used in biological
monitoring programmes to assess anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems. However, next …

Macroinvertebrate communities are crucial for biodiversity monitoring and assessment of
ecological status in stream ecosystems. However, traditional monitoring approaches require …

In marine and estuarine benthic communities, the inventory and estimation of species
richness are often hampered by the need for broad taxonomic expertise across several …

Microbial ecology within oligotrophic marine sediment is poorly understood, yet is critical for
understanding geochemical cycles. Here, 16S rRNA sequences from RNA and DNA inform …

The use of bioindicator species is a widely applied approach to evaluate ecological
conditions, and several indices have been designed for this purpose. To assess the impact …

The monitoring and management of aquatic ecosystems depend on precise estimates of
biodiversity. Metabarcoding analyses of environmental nucleic acids (eNAs), including …

Nematodes inhabiting benthic deep-sea ecosystems account for> 90% of the total metazoan
abundances and they have been hypothesised to be hyper-diverse, but their biodiversity is …

Marine sediments are home to one of the richest species pools on Earth, but logistics and a
dearth of taxonomic work-force hinders the knowledge of their biodiversity. We characterized …