[HTML][HTML] Standards and best practices for monitoring and benchmarking insects

GA Montgomery, MW Belitz, RP Guralnick… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Benchmark studies of insect populations are increasingly relevant and needed amid
accelerating concern about insect trends in the Anthropocene. The growing recognition that …

The evolutionary dynamics of biological invasions: A multi‐approach perspective

S Sherpa, L Després - Evolutionary Applications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biological invasions, the establishment and spread of non‐native species in new regions,
can have extensive economic and environmental consequences. Increased global …

[HTML][HTML] Developing a non-destructive metabarcoding protocol for detection of pest insects in bulk trap catches

J Batovska, AM Piper, I Valenzuela, JP Cunningham… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Metabarcoding has the potential to revolutionise insect surveillance by providing high-
throughput and cost-effective species identification of all specimens within mixed trap …

[HTML][HTML] DNA traces the origin of honey by identifying plants, bacteria and fungi

H Wirta, N Abrego, K Miller, T Roslin, E Vesterinen - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The regional origin of a food product commonly affects its value. To this, DNA-based
identification of tissue remains could offer fine resolution. For honey, this would allow the …

[HTML][HTML] Standardized high-throughput biomonitoring using DNA metabarcoding: Strategies for the adoption of automated liquid handlers

D Buchner, TH Macher, AJ Beermann… - Environmental Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reliable and comprehensive monitoring data are required to trace and counteract
biodiversity loss. High-throughput metabarcoding using DNA extracted from community …

Intensive monitoring for bees in North America: indispensable or improvident?

VJ Tepedino, ZM Portman - Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Continued reports of bee declines have prompted repeated calls for a national monitoring
programme in the United States. Here, we argue that such a large‐scale surveillance …

Italian odonates in the Pandora's box: A comprehensive DNA barcoding inventory shows taxonomic warnings at the Holarctic scale

A Galimberti, G Assandri, D Maggioni… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Odonata are considered among the most endangered freshwater faunal taxa. Their
DNA‐based monitoring relies on validated reference data sets that are often lacking or do …

[HTML][HTML] Virus diseases of cereal and oilseed crops in Australia: current position and future challenges

RAC Jones, M Sharman, P Trębicki, S Maina… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes research on virus diseases of cereals and oilseeds in Australia
since the 1950s. All viruses known to infect the diverse range of cereal and oilseed crops …

A workflow for accurate metabarcoding using nanopore MinION sequencing

B Baloğlu, Z Chen, V Elbrecht… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metabarcoding has become a common approach to the rapid identification of the species
composition in a mixed sample. The majority of studies use established short‐read high …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted non-invasive bioindicator species detection in eDNA water samples to assess and monitor the integrity of vulnerable alpine freshwater environments

L Blattner, JN Ebner, J Zopfi, S von Fumetti - Ecological indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to a high number of specialized species and unique environmental conditions, alpine
spring ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to environmental change and human impact …