The planktonic diversity throughout the oceans is vital to ecosystem functioning and linked to
environmental change. Plankton monitoring tools have advanced considerably with high …

Numerous genomic methods developed over the past two decades have enabled the
discovery and extraction of orthologous loci to help resolve phylogenetic relationships …

Over the past century, numerous studies have proposed various organisms for the
biomonitoring of aquatic systems, but only recently has zooplankton emerged as a …

Abstract Motivation Environmental DNA (eDNA), as a rapidly expanding research field,
stands to benefit from shared resources including sampling protocols, study designs …

Marine zooplankton are key players in pelagic food webs, central links in ecosystem
function, useful indicators of water masses, and rapid responders to environmental variation …

Aim Desert springs or oases are the only permanent mesic environments in highly water‐
limited arid regions. Oases have immense cultural, evolutionary and ecological importance …

Maximizing the reliability and the number of species assignments in metabarcoding studies
using a curated regional library and a Page 1 Maximizing the reliability and the number of …

The diversity and distribution of polychaetes in the coastal area and the EEZ of the Republic
of Cyprus is presented based on both the literature records and new data acquired in a wide …

Since the discovery of the first oncaeid copepod described by Philippi in 1843 as Oncaea
venusta, great progress has been achieved regarding the morphological/descriptive …

Biodiversity inventories are important for informing land management strategies,
conservation efforts, and for biomonitoring studies. For many organismal groups, including …