New technologies for monitoring biodiversity such as environmental (e) DNA, passive
acoustic monitoring, and optical sensors promise to generate automated spatiotemporal …

High throughput sequencing of PCR amplicons derived from environmental DNA (aka DNA
metabarcoding) has become an integral part of fungal ecology, enabling in-depth …

The accurate extraction of species‐abundance information from DNA‐based data
(metabarcoding, metagenomics) could contribute usefully to diet analysis and food‐web …

Advancements in environmental DNA (eDNA) approaches have allowed for rapid and
efficient species detections in diverse environments. Although most eDNA research is …

Metabarcoding is a powerful molecular tool for simultaneously surveying hundreds to
thousands of species from a single sample, underpinning microbiome and environmental …

Molecular methods are currently some of the best-suited technologies for implementation in
insect monitoring. However, the field is developing rapidly and lacks agreement on …

Molecular methods including metabarcoding and quantitative polymerase chain reaction
have shown promise for estimating species abundance by quantifying the concentration of …

Diet analysis is a vital tool for understanding trophic interactions and is frequently used to
inform conservation and management. Molecular approaches can identify diet items that are …

Marine heatwaves can drive large‐scale shifts in marine ecosystems, but studying their
impacts on whole species assemblages is difficult. Analysis combining microscopic …

Surf zones are highly dynamic marine ecosystems that are subject to increasing
anthropogenic and climatic pressures, posing multiple challenges for biomonitoring …