High-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA and/or RNA proved to be a
powerful tool to describe protist diversity. This new approach called also the metabarcoding …

Protists are the dominant eukaryotes in the biosphere where they play key functional roles.
While protists have been studied for over a century, it is the high-throughput sequencing of …

During the last decade, high‐throughput metabarcoding became routine for analyzing
protistan diversity and distributions in nature. Amid a multitude of exciting findings, scientists …

The measurement of species diversity represents a powerful tool for assessing the impacts
of human activities on marine ecosystems. Traditionally, the impact of fish farming on the …

Ecological assessment of lakes and rivers using benthic diatom assemblages currently
requires considerable taxonomic expertise to identify species using light microscopy. This …

Characterization of biodiversity has been extensively used to confidently monitor and assess
environmental status. Yet, visual morphology, traditionally and widely used for species …

DNA metabarcoding is a sophisticated molecular tool that can enhance biological surveys of
freshwater plankton communities by providing broader taxonomic coverage and, for certain …

Despite representing one of the largest biomes on earth, biodiversity of the deep seafloor is
still poorly known. Environmental DNA metabarcoding offers prospects for fast inventories …

Sea-based fish farms are associated with strong, benthic enrichment gradients and routine
monitoring is usually required by regulation. This has traditionally been based on benthic …

Recent years provided intense progression in the implementation of molecular techniques in
a wide variety of research fields in ecology. Biomonitoring and bioassessment can greatly …