Is the meiofauna a good indicator for climate change and anthropogenic impacts?

D Zeppilli, J Sarrazin, D Leduc, PM Arbizu… - Marine Biodiversity, 2015 - Springer
Our planet is changing, and one of the most pressing challenges facing the scientific
community revolves around understanding how ecological communities respond to global …

Embracing environmental genomics and machine learning for routine biomonitoring

T Cordier, A Lanzén, L Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Genomics is fast becoming a routine tool in medical diagnostics and cutting-edge
biotechnologies. Yet, its use for environmental biomonitoring is still considered a futuristic …

Predicting the ecological quality status of marine environments from eDNA metabarcoding data using supervised machine learning

T Cordier, P Esling, F Lejzerowicz, J Visco… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Monitoring biodiversity is essential to assess the impacts of increasing anthropogenic
activities in marine environments. Traditionally, marine biomonitoring involves the sorting …

Taxonomy‐free molecular diatom index for high‐throughput eDNA biomonitoring

L Apothéloz‐Perret‐Gentil, A Cordonier… - Molecular ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Current biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring are largely based on the morphological
identification of selected bioindicator taxa. Recently, several attempts have been made to …

Developing Foram-AMBI for biomonitoring in the Mediterranean: Species assignments to ecological categories

F Jorissen, MP Nardelli, A Almogi-Labin… - Marine …, 2018 - Elsevier
Most environmental bio-monitoring methods using the species composition of marine faunas
define the Ecological Quality Status of soft bottom ecosystems based on the relative …

Protist metabarcoding and environmental biomonitoring: time for change

J Pawlowski, F Lejzerowicz… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
High-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA and/or RNA proved to be a
powerful tool to describe protist diversity. This new approach called also the metabarcoding …

Environmental monitoring through protist next‐generation sequencing metabarcoding: Assessing the impact of fish farming on benthic foraminifera communities

J Pawlowski, P Esling, F Lejzerowicz… - Molecular ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The measurement of species diversity represents a powerful tool for assessing the impacts
of human activities on marine ecosystems. Traditionally, the impact of fish farming on the …

Foram-AMBI: A sensitivity index based on benthic foraminiferal faunas from North-East Atlantic and Arctic fjords, continental shelves and slopes

E Alve, S Korsun, J Schönfeld, N Dijkstra… - Marine …, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study follows up the FOraminiferal BIo-MOnitoring (FOBIMO) working group's
aim to explore methods which will improve the usefulness of benthic foraminifera in …

The Foram Stress Index: A new tool for environmental assessment of soft-bottom environments using benthic foraminifera. A case study from the Saronikos Gulf …

MD Dimiza, MV Triantaphyllou, O Koukousioura… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Saronikos Gulf, including the industrial zone of Elefsis Bay and the Port of Piraeus, is one of
the most anthropogenically impacted coastal regions of Greece. Distinct assemblages of …

Chronic effects of brine discharge from large-scale seawater reverse osmosis desalination facilities on benthic bacteria

H Frank, KE Fussmann, E Rahav, EB Zeev - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Seawater desalination facilities continuously discharge hyper-saline brine into the coastal
environment which often flows as a concentrated plume over the seafloor, hence possibly …