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

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

DNA taxonomy including barcoding and metabarcoding is widely used to explore the
diversity in biodiversity hotspots. In most of these hotspot areas, chafers are represented by …

Metabarcoding of Metazoa using mitochondrial genes may be confounded by both the
accumulation of PCR and sequencing artefacts and the co‐amplification of nuclear …

Disentangling the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in driving
metacommunity structure across mountainous regions remains challenging, as the way we …

High‐throughput sequencing (HTS) is increasingly being used for the characterization and
monitoring of biodiversity. If applied in a structured way, across broad geographical scales, it …

The soil fauna of the tropics remains one of the least known components of the biosphere.
Long-term monitoring of this fauna is hampered by the lack of taxonomic expertise and …

Spatial turnover of biological communities is determined by both dispersal and
environmental constraints. However, we lack quantitative predictions about how these …

Biodiversity is declining at alarming rates worldwide and large-scale monitoring is urgently
needed to understand changes and their drivers. While classical taxonomic identification of …

Aim Specialisation to the soil environment is expected to constrain the spatial scale of
diversification within animal lineages. In this context, flightless arthropod lineages, adapted …