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Comparative assessment of methods for monitoring urban phytoplankton biodiversity

Ecological Informatics
Human disturbances increasingly threaten freshwater ecosystems in rapidly urbanizing regions, creating a growing need for efficient and scalable biodiversity monitoring.
Xun Du, Aibin Zhan, Zewei He, Xuan Cai, Nengwen Xiao   +4 more
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Regional landscape differences lead to contrasts in the strength of environmental sorting among crustacean zooplankton metacommunities

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.
Processes underlying metacommunity structuring are important for understanding species tracking of environmental change at a landscape scale. Species' functional traits more closely reflect their ecological roles than taxonomy, therefore, adopting a functional approach allows us a better understanding of metacommunity structuring.
Annabelle Fortin‐Archambault, Beatrix E. Beisner, Alison M. Derry   +2 more
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Ectomycorrhizal community composition and extramatrical hyphal proportion predict soil carbon stocks at the landscape scale

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 8, Page 2490-2505, August 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract While fungal composition has been linked to soil carbon at global scales, these patterns are often difficult to disentangle from broad climatic gradients and species range limits. To address this constraint, we tested which aspects of ectomycorrhizal community structure
Robert A. Barber, Benjamin C. Underwood, James J. Clarkson, Thomas D. Brekke, Thomas L. Weeks, Tim Wilkinson, Phil Wilkes, Gary Egan, Mark A. Lee, Isabel Openshaw, Guilherme Castro, Justin Moat, Martin I. Bidartondo, Laura M. Suz, Jill Kowal   +14 more
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Validation of Environmental DNA for Estimating Proportional and Absolute Biomass

Environmental DNA
Environmental DNA (eDNA) has significant potential to improve the efficiency of biological sampling and detect species that pose challenges for traditional sampling methods.
Kimberly J. Ledger, Mary Beth Rew Hicks, Thomas P. Hurst, Wes Larson, Diana S. Baetscher   +4 more
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Metagenomic Insights Into Red Sea Biodiversity Across the Web of Life

Environmental Microbiology, Volume 28, Issue 8, August 2026.
Deep‐sequencing shotgun metagenomics of Red Sea benthic sediments reveals biodiversity across the web of life, from viruses to animals. Despite the strong dominance of prokaryotic DNA, low‐abundance eukaryotic reads capture broad taxonomic diversity. Open‐ocean communities are primarily structured by depth, whereas coastal eukaryotic communities follow
Elisa Laiolo, Christopher A. Hempel, Balegh A. Abukabbos, Omar I. Abunayyan, Intikhab Alam, Taiba Alamoudi, Wejdan A. Alkhaldi, Zuhair M. Almubarak, Hamad A. Alnashri, Afrah Alothman, Tareq H. Alqahtani, Khalid A. Alshaikh, Modar Alsulaimani, Sultan A. Alturki, Jacqueline V. Alva Garcia, Ahmed H. Alzahrani, Saeed A. Amin, Abdulsalam A. Ardan, Silvia Arossa, Fadiyah Baalkhuyur, Susanne Bähr, Alan Barozzi, Federica Barreca, Jessica Breavington, Nauras Daraghmeh, Max Dhillon, Mascha Dix, Natalie Dunn, Katarina English, Marta A. Ezeta Watts, Sofia Frappi, Michelle‐Nicole Havlik, Khalid A. Imam, Allan Kamau, Hassan A. Kateb, Kah Kheng Lim, Wang Liu, Hugo Mann, Fabio Marchese, Anastasiia Martynova, Jessica Menzies, Alessandro Moret, Marcelle Muniz‐Barreto, Megan K. B. Nolan, Charlene Odobel, Joanna M. Ogieglo, Anieka J. Parry, Ricardo Pedraza‐Pohlenz, Naira Pluma, Abdulnaser Qutub, Lotfi J. Rabaoui, Eleonora Re, Diego E. Rivera Rosas, Cassandra Roch, Mattie Rodrigue, Faridah W. Tayib, Tullia Isotta Terraneo, Jennifer Thomson, Helena Villela, Silvia Vimercati, Carlos Angulo‐Preckler, Larissa Frühe, Shannon G. Klein, Katsuhiko Mineta, Sebastian Schmidt‐Roach, Alexandra Steckbauer, Francesca Benzoni, Daniele Daffonchio, Mike D. Fox, Maggie D. Johnson, Susana Agusti, Manuel Aranda, Michael Berumen, Xin Gao, Takashi Gojobori, Raquel Peixoto, Froukje M. van der Zwan, Vincent Pieribone, Mohammad Qurban, Carlos M. Duarte   +79 more
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Environmental DNA and biodiversity patterns: a call for a community phylogenetics approach

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a relatively new technology allowing effective non-invasive analyses and monitoring of biodiversity patterns.
José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Luis Mauricio Bini, Cintia Pelegrineti Targueta, Mariana Pires de Campos Telles, Lucas Jardim, Karine Borges Machado, João Carlos Nabout, Rhewter Nunes, Ludgero Cardoso Galli Vieira, Thannya Nascimento Soares   +9 more
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FishChip: Development of a High‐Throughput qPCR Assay for Freshwater Fish eDNA Quantification and Its Comparison With Droplet Digital PCR

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 26, Issue 6, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Quantitative monitoring of fish using environmental DNA (eDNA) typically relies on quantitative real‐time PCR (qPCR) and droplet digital PCR (ddPCR), yet both methods are constrained in throughput, making it difficult to meet the demands of basin‐scale surveys.
Shoutao Cheng, Jiasheng Zhang, Zhuming Liang, Hao Xue, Lingsong Zhang, Yeyao Wang, Fansheng Meng   +6 more
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Evaluating eDNA Metabarcoding Techniques for Pollinator Community Assessment in a Field and Controlled Experiment

Environmental DNA
Pollinators play a critical role in ensuring the stability of food systems, yet their populations are in decline. To better understand and promote pollinator biodiversity, this study explored the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding techniques ...
Stephanie S. Coster, Morgane Pommier, Nicholas J. Ruppel   +2 more
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Benchmarking Full‐Length ITS Metabarcoding Across Illumina 2 × 500, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Using Mock and Soil Communities

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 26, Issue 6, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Metabarcoding is a powerful tool for biodiversity comparisons, where standard‐size DNA barcodes (> 500 bases) offer better taxonomic resolution than shorter ones. Still, the choice of sequencing platforms and bioinformatics pipelines may strongly affect inferred diversity due to various technical biases. We assessed the relative performance of
Leho Tedersoo, Marko Prous, Meirong Chen, Sten Anslan, Irja Saar, Benjamin Dubois, Vladimir Mikryukov   +6 more
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Accurate Identification of Key Groups of Microeukaryotes Using Multimodal Deep Learning: An Integrated Classification Model Combining Morphological and Molecular Data

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 26, Issue 6, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Traditional classification of flagellates (i.e., flagellated protists) relies on morphological traits or a single molecular marker, which suffer from subjectivity and limited data sources. This study proposes a multimodal deep learning model, Residual Multi‐Feature Attention‐50 (ResMFA50), that integrates photomicrographs and small subunit ...
Yumeng Song, Lin Zheng, Alan Warren, Mingzhuang Zhu, Bailin Li, Weidong Ji, Xuming Pan   +6 more
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