Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

Simple Summary The metabarcoding approach is widely used for studying the diversity and
distribution of freshwater microalgae and for routine biomonitoring. Due to microalgae being …

The taxonomic identification of organisms based on the amplification of specific genetic
markers (metabarcoding) implicitly requires adequate discriminatory information and …

Our study of 164 diatom samples from Catalonia (NE Spain) is the first to evaluate the
applicability of DNA metabarcoding, based on high throughput sequencing (HTS) using a …

The European Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD) has been implemented over
the past 20 years, using physicochemical, biological and hydromorphological elements to …

As freshwater algae respond strongly to environmental conditions, algal communities are
routinely used as indicators of aquatic health. Algal bioassessments have historically relied …

Freshwater bodies, both lotic (canals, rivers) and lentic (lakes and reservoirs), in the tropics
have only rarely been subjected to intense monitoring regimes owing to limited expertise …

With the developments in DNA nanoball sequencing technologies and the emergence of
new platforms, there is an increasing interest in their performance in comparison with the …

Karst ecosystems play a unique role as exceptional natural habitats in sustaining
biodiversity. This study focuses on diatoms, a diverse group of microeukaryotes in the …

Recent advances in molecular biomonitoring open new horizons for aquatic ecosystem
assessment. Rapid and cost-effective methods based on organismal DNA or environmental …