Predicting the ecological quality status of marine environments from eDNA metabarcoding data using supervised machine learning

T Cordier, P Esling, F Lejzerowicz, J Visco… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Monitoring biodiversity is essential to assess the impacts of increasing anthropogenic
activities in marine environments. Traditionally, marine biomonitoring involves the sorting …

Supervised machine learning outperforms taxonomy‐based environmental DNA metabarcoding applied to biomonitoring

T Cordier, D Forster, Y Dufresne… - Molecular ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity monitoring is the standard for environmental impact assessment of
anthropogenic activities. Several recent studies showed that high‐throughput amplicon …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking DNA metabarcoding for biodiversity-based monitoring and assessment

E Aylagas, Á Borja, X Irigoien… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Characterization of biodiversity has been extensively used to confidently monitor and assess
environmental status. Yet, visual morphology, traditionally and widely used for species …

[HTML][HTML] eDNA metabarcoding in zooplankton improves the ecological status assessment of aquatic ecosystems

J Yang, X Zhang - Environment international, 2020 - Elsevier
Aquatic ecosystems are monitored worldwide using a range of biological quality elements
that are morphologically identified. The environmental DNA (eDNA)-based approach has …

A cross-taxa study using environmental DNA/RNA metabarcoding to measure biological impacts of offshore oil and gas drilling and production operations

O Laroche, SA Wood, LA Tremblay, JI Ellis, G Lear… - Marine Pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Standardized ecosystem-based monitoring surveys are critical for providing information on
marine ecosystem health. Environmental DNA/RNA (eDNA/eRNA) metabarcoding may …

[HTML][HTML] Validating metabarcoding-based biodiversity assessments with multi-species occupancy models: a case study using coastal marine eDNA

B McClenaghan, ZG Compson, M Hajibabaei - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is an increasingly popular method for rapid
biodiversity assessment. As with any ecological survey, false negatives can arise during …

[HTML][HTML] Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on …

O Laroche, SA Wood, LA Tremblay, G Lear, JI Ellis… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Sequencing environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly being used as an alternative to
traditional morphological-based identification to characterize biological assemblages and …

[HTML][HTML] The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e) DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems

J Pawlowski, M Kelly-Quinn, F Altermatt… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems is currently based on various biotic indices that
use the occurrence and/or abundance of selected taxonomic groups to define ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of DNA-based approaches in aquatic ecological assessment using benthic macroinvertebrates

S Duarte, BR Leite, MJ Feio, FO Costa, AF Filipe - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Benthic macroinvertebrates are among the most used biological quality elements for
assessing the condition of all types of aquatic ecosystems worldwide (ie, fresh water …

[HTML][HTML] DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput monitoring of estuarine macrobenthic communities

J Lobo, S Shokralla, MH Costa, M Hajibabaei… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Morphology-based profiling of benthic communities has been extensively applied to aquatic
ecosystems' health assessment. However, it remains a low-throughput, and sometimes …