The advancement of metabarcoding techniques, declining costs of high-throughput
sequencing and development of systematic sampling devices, such as autonomous reef …

Coral reefs harbor the most diverse assemblages in the ocean, however, a large proportion
of the diversity is cryptic and, therefore, undetected by standard visual census techniques …

In an era of coral reef degradation, our knowledge of ecological patterns in reefs is biased
towards large conspicuous organisms. The majority of biodiversity, however, inhabits small …

DNA metabarcoding is an increasingly popular technique to investigate biodiversity;
however, many methodological unknowns remain, especially concerning the biases …

Documenting the diversity of marine life is challenging because many species are cryptic,
small, and rare, and belong to poorly known groups. New sequencing technologies …

Coral reefs harbor diverse assemblages of organisms yet the majority of this diversity is
hidden within the three dimensional structure of the reef and neglected using standard …

Background Effective biodiversity monitoring is fundamental in tracking changes in
ecosystems as it relates to commercial, recreational, and conservation interests. Current …

Coral reefs are among the richest marine ecosystems on Earth, but there remains much
diversity hidden within cavities of complex reef structures awaiting discovery. While the …

Abstract Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) have been applied worldwide to
characterize the critical yet frequently overlooked biodiversity patterns of marine benthic …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding, a technique for retrieving multispecies DNA
from environmental samples, can detect a diverse array of marine species from filtered …