Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory

E Weiher, D Freund, T Bunton… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecological approaches to community assembly have emphasized the interplay between
neutral processes, niche-based environmental filtering and niche-based species sorting in …

Sequencing our way towards understanding global eukaryotic biodiversity

HM Bik, DL Porazinska, S Creer, JG Caporaso… - Trends in ecology & …, 2012 - cell.com
Microscopic eukaryotes are abundant, diverse and fill critical ecological roles across every
ecosystem on Earth, yet there is a well-recognized gap in understanding of their global …

Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring

DW Yu, Y Ji, BC Emerson, X Wang, C Ye… - Methods in Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional biodiversity assessment is costly in time, money and taxonomic expertise.
Moreover, data are frequently collected in ways (eg visual bird lists) that are unsuitable for …

[HTML][HTML] To denoise or to cluster, that is not the question: optimizing pipelines for COI metabarcoding and metaphylogeography

A Antich, C Palacin, OS Wangensteen, X Turon - BMC bioinformatics, 2021 - Springer
Background The recent blooming of metabarcoding applications to biodiversity studies
comes with some relevant methodological debates. One such issue concerns the treatment …

A methodological framework to embrace soil biodiversity

S Geisen, MJI Briones, H Gan… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soils host the vast majority of life on Earth including microorganisms and animals, and
supporting all terrestrial vegetation. While soil organisms are pivotal for ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Soil fauna and soil functions: a jigsaw puzzle

MJI Briones - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Terrestrial ecologists and soil modelers have traditionally portrayed the inhabitants of soil as
a black box labeled as “soil fauna” or “decomposers or detritivores” assuming that they just …

Spatial predictions at the community level: from current approaches to future frameworks

M D'Amen, C Rahbek, NE Zimmermann… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A fundamental goal of ecological research is to understand and model how
processes generate patterns so that if conditions change, changes in the patterns can be …

Global biodiversity assessment and hyper-cryptic species complexes: more than one species of elephant in the room?

M Adams, TA Raadik, CP Burridge… - Systematic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Several recent estimates of global biodiversity have concluded that the total number of
species on Earth lies near the lower end of the wide range touted in previous decades …

[HTML][HTML] Life barcoded by DNA barcodes

M Guo, C Yuan, L Tao, Y Cai, W Zhang - Conservation Genetics …, 2022 - Springer
The modern concept of DNA-based barcoding for cataloguing biodiversity was proposed in
2003 by first adopting an approximately 600 bp fragment of the mitochondrial COI gene to …

From metabarcoding to metaphylogeography: separating the wheat from the chaff

X Turon, A Antich, C Palacín, K Præbel… - Ecological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metabarcoding is by now a well‐established method for biodiversity assessment in
terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. Metabarcoding data sets are usually used …