The bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems is currently based on various biotic indices that
use the occurrence and/or abundance of selected taxonomic groups to define ecological …

Effective identification of species using short DNA fragments (DNA barcoding and DNA
metabarcoding) requires reliable sequence reference libraries of known taxa. Both taxonomically …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding (parallel sequencing of DNA/RNA for identification
of whole communities within a targeted group) is revolutionizing the field of aquatic …

Metabarcoding is an emerging genetic tool to rapidly assess biodiversity in ecosystems. It
involves high-throughput sequencing of a standard gene from an environmental sample and …

… We find that approximately 24.7 per cent of the diploid F. cylindrus genome consists of genetic
loci with alleles that are highly divergent (15.1 megabases of the total genome size of 61.1 …

… Across the 10 image series, the deep learning model detected detailed variation in (F)
seasonal and (G) diurnal variation in the occurrence frequency among the same three species. …

A central challenge in the present era of biodiversity loss is to assess and manage human
impacts on freshwater ecosystems. Macroinvertebrates are an important group for such …

DNA metabarcoding holds great promise for the assessment of macroinvertebrates in stream
ecosystems. However, few large‐scale studies have compared the performance of DNA …

… This criterion addresses the separate but related question, of how the influence of f “unassigned”
reads (ie those reads or OTUs that do not match a Linnaean taxon in DNA reference …

Global freshwater biodiversity is declining dramatically, and meeting the challenges of this
crisis requires bold goals and the mobilisation of substantial resources. While the reasons are …