ArticleNature communications2020
Environmental DNA reveals seasonal shifts and potential interactions in a marine community.
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- Biomonitoring 3.0: Beyond Taxa Lists to Evidence-Tiered Monitoring of Ecosystem Dynamics and Interactions.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
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- Fish diversity and community turnover across protection zones in multiuse marine protected areas.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Integrating Water Column and Sediment eDNA Metabarcoding Reveals Seasonal Turnover and Habitat-Specific Differentiation of Fish Communities in a Subtropical Coastal Bay.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Spatial Complexity and Rare-Taxon Turnover Structures Benthic Coral Reef eDNA Communities.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Third-generation RNA Amplicon Sequencing Reveals the Dynamics of Microbial Communities in the Tidal Reach of a Subtropical Estuary.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Long-read nanopore shotgun metagenomic DNA sequencing for river biodiversity, wildlife, pollution, and environmental health monitoring.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Deciphering Metazoan Community Dynamics Using eDNA in a Human-Impacted Gulf Ecosystem: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Environmental Drivers.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Geographic Patterns of Intra- and Interspecific Diversity of Riverine Fish Species in the Italian Northern Apennines and Ligurian Alps.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
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- Environmental Filtering Weakens with Trophic Level in Urban Coastal Ecosystems.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Unveiling Vertebrate Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Terrestrial Ecosystems Through eDNA Metabarcoding at Savanna Waterholes.Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
- Prokaryotic assemblages recovered by sedimentary DNA record natural and human-driven disturbances over the past 13 500 years in a cultural landscape.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Evaluating Prey Availability for the Rice's Whale (Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- How low can you go? Establishing detection limits for rare eukaryotes in Southern Ocean sedimentary ancient DNA.Bioinformatics advances · 2026Article
- Airborne eDNA captures three decades of ecosystem biodiversity.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Microbial and Fish Communities in the Thracian Sea Revealed by eDNA Metabarcoding.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Multi-Tool Marine Metabarcoding Bioassessment for Baselining and Monitoring Species and Communities in Kelp Habitats.Molecular ecology resources · 2025Article
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16 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis allows the simultaneous examination of organisms across multiple trophic levels and domains of life, providing critical information about the complex biotic interactions related to ecosystem change. Here we used multilocus amplicon sequencing of eDNA to survey biodiversity from an eighteen-month (2015-2016) time-series of seawater samples from Monterey Bay, California. The resulting dataset encompasses 663 taxonomic groups (at Family or higher taxonomic rank) ranging from microorganisms to mammals. We inferred changes in the composition of communities, revealing putative interactions among taxa and identifying correlations between these communities and environmental properties over time. Community network analysis provided evidence of expected predator-prey relationships, trophic linkages, and seasonal shifts across all domains of life. We conclude that eDNA-based analyses can provide detailed information about marine ecosystem dynamics and identify sensitive biological indicators that can suggest ecosystem changes and inform conservation strategies.
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