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Ecography, EarlyView.Predator–prey interactions are vital to ecosystem functioning but may be disrupted by climate change. We investigated a food‐web network involving three owl species over 24 years in a semi‐arid ecosystem at Bosque Fray Jorge National Park, Chile.
Jazmin M. Quiroz‐Calizaya +12 more
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DNA metabarcoding reveals greater plant diversity than morphological seed analysis of bird feces
Applications in Plant SciencesPremise Fruit‐eating birds drive seed dispersal in recovering tropical ecosystems, shaping forest regeneration. Molecular techniques, such as DNA metabarcoding, enable diet analysis from feces and can provide complementary frugivory data where dispersal ...
Carina I. Motta +3 more
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Metabarcoding From Microbes to Mammals: Comprehensive Bioassessment on a Global Scale
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Global biodiversity loss is unprecedented, and threats to existing biodiversity are growing. Given pervasive global change, a major challenge facing resource managers is a lack of scalable tools to rapidly and consistently measure Earth's biodiversity ...
Zacchaeus G. Compson +5 more
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Determining prey spectra of carnivorous sundews using DNA-metabarcoding
, 2021 Prey spectra of five closely-related species of carnivorous plants (Drosera sect. Arachnopus, Droseraceae) were investigated in their natural habitats in Western Australia using novel in-situ macro photography and DNA-metabarcoding techniques.
Thilo Alexander Krueger (23515417)
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Estuarine benthic diversity declines with temperature across a tropical–temperate gradient
Ecography, EarlyView.Estuarine benthic sediments are important habitats that support ecosystem health and productivity, but the drivers of large‐scale patterns in benthic diversity are not well documented. Using 18S amplicon sequencing of 425 sediment DNA samples from estuaries spanning 20° of latitude along Australia's east coast, we assessed tropical–temperate patterns ...
Sally A. Bracewell +5 more
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Comparison and validation of some ITS primer pairs useful for fungal metabarcoding studies.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Current metabarcoding studies aiming to characterize microbial communities generally rely on the amplification and sequencing of relatively short DNA regions.
Michiel Op De Beeck +5 more
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Ecography, EarlyView.Understanding how anthropogenic pressures and environmental gradients shape coastal fish communities is a central question in biogeography and marine conservation. Yet, the set of species expected to occur at a site given ecological conditions but being absent – the so‐called dark diversity – has received far less attention than observed species, even ...
Loïc Sanchez +23 more
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Surveying Biodiverse Coral Reef Ecosystems Across the Tree of Life With Environmental DNA. [PDF]
Mol Ecol ResourABSTRACT A central challenge in evaluating biodiversity using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is that each primer set has biases resulting in selective amplification of taxonomic diversity. Here we test 11 primer pairs to assess Central Pacific coral reef diversity in the five kingdoms of marine eukaryotes: Chromista, Fungi, Metazoa, Plantae and
Wishingrad V, Bowen BW, Toonen RJ.
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Environmental DNA Metabarcoding Detects Predators at Higher Rates Than Electrofishing
Environmental DNAThere are numerous downsides and risks associated with electrofishing; hence, environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is becoming increasingly common in aquatic ecological studies.
Eric A. Bonk +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Monitoring biodiversity is of increasing importance in natural ecosystems. Metabarcoding can be used as a powerful molecular tool to complement traditional biodiversity monitoring, as total environmental DNA can be analyzed from complex samples ...
Kleopatra Leontidou +10 more
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