Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has gained growing attention as a strategy for
monitoring biodiversity in ecology. However, taxa identifications produced through …

Metazoan metabarcoding is emerging as an essential strategy for inventorying biodiversity,
with diverse projects currently generating massive quantities of community-level data. The …

Background The recent blooming of metabarcoding applications to biodiversity studies
comes with some relevant methodological debates. One such issue concerns the treatment …

In nature, entangled webs of predator–prey interactions constitute the backbones of
ecosystems. Uncovering the network architecture of such trophic interactions has been …

Soil arthropod communities are highly diverse and critical for ecosystem functioning.
However, our knowledge of spatial structure and the underlying processes of community …

Despite being the most important source of liquid freshwater on the planet, groundwater is
severely threatened by climate change, agriculture, or industrial mining. It is thus extensively …

Aim It has been predicted that there should be concordance between biogeographical and
phylogeographical processes structuring multi‐species regional assemblages. We …

Metabarcoding of DNA extracted from community samples of whole organisms (whole
organism community DNA, wocDNA) is increasingly being applied to terrestrial, marine and …

The ability to gather genetic information using DNA metabarcoding of bulk samples obtained
directly from the environment is crucial to determine biodiversity baselines and understand …

The nuclear genomes of most animal species include NUMTs, segments of the mitogenome
incorporated into their chromosomes. Although NUMT counts are known to vary greatly …