Fishing for fish environmental DNA: Ecological applications, methodological considerations, surveying designs, and ways forward

M Yao, S Zhang, Q Lu, X Chen, SY Zhang… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vast global declines of freshwater and marine fish diversity and population abundance pose
serious threats to both ecosystem sustainability and human livelihoods. Environmental DNA …

Marine extinctions and their drivers

A Nikolaou, S Katsanevakis - Regional environmental change, 2023 - Springer
A literature review was conducted to investigate marine global and local extinctions and
their drivers; the review followed the PRISMA-EcoEvo guidelines. The data extracted was …

Pollen DNA metabarcoding reveals cryptic diversity and high spatial turnover in alpine plant–pollinator networks

F Encinas‐Viso, J Bovill, DE Albrecht… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Alpine plant–pollinator communities play an important role in the functioning of alpine
ecosystems, which are highly threatened by climate change. However, we still have a poor …

Holistic impact evaluation of human activities on the coastal fish biodiversity in the Chinese coastal environment

W Zhong, J Zhang, Z Wang, J Lin… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ecological qualities and resources in coasts are threatened by various human activities,
such as pollution and fishery. Impact evaluation of environmental stressors over a wide …

Benchmarking eleven biodiversity indicators based on environmental DNA surveys: More diverse functional traits and evolutionary lineages inside marine reserves

A Dalongeville, E Boulanger, V Marques… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To mitigate the ongoing threats to coastal ecosystems, and the biodiversity erosion they are
causing, marine‐protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as powerful and widespread …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological indicators based on quantitative eDNA metabarcoding: the case of marine reserves

L Sanchez, E Boulanger, V Arnal, P Boissery… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
In a context of marine biodiversity erosion, the need to better understand the effects of
overfishing stands out. New genetic techniques such as environmental DNA (eDNA) …

[HTML][HTML] Unsupervised biological integrity assessment by eDNA biomonitoring of multi-trophic aquatic taxa

J Yang, L Zhang, Y Mu, J Wang, H Yu, X Zhang - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
The biological integrity of global freshwater ecosystems is threatened by ever-increasing
environmental stressors due to increased human activities, such as land-use change …

Anthropogenic activities and environmental filtering have reshaped freshwater fish biodiversity patterns in China over the past 120 years

T Xiang, X Dong, T Ju, L Shi, G Grenouillet - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past centuries, freshwater fish introductions and extinctions have been the major
environmental and ecological crises in various water bodies in China. However …

Environmental DNA and RNA in aquatic community ecology: Toward methodological standardization

IV Bunholi, NR Foster, JM Casey - Environmental DNA, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular technologies have facilitated the expansion of biodiversity assessments across a
broad range of organisms and aquatic systems. Environmental DNA (eDNA) and …

Inferring functional diversity from environmental DNA metabarcoding

C Condachou, T Milhau, J Murienne… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a reliable method to assess taxonomic
diversity, but the incompleteness of genetic reference databases prevents the assignation of …