ArticleCommunications biology2021
Environmental DNA provides higher resolution assessment of riverine biodiversity and ecosystem function via spatio-temporal nestedness and turnover partitioning.
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- Pooled it
- From environmental DNA into actionable biodiversity data: Towards the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.The Journal of heredity · 2026Review
- Environmental DNA Metabarcoding Effectively Detects Invasive Species, Pests, and Community Changes in Taiwan's Rice Fields.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Developing and Evaluating Aquatic Passive Sampling of Environmental DNA for Microbial Community Profiling.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
- Environmental Filtering Weakens with Trophic Level in Urban Coastal Ecosystems.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Widespread slowdown in short-term species turnover despite accelerating climate change.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Integrative Assessment of Hong Kong Chironomidae (Diptera) Shows High Species Richness Linked to Spatial and Environmental Factors.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Assessing fish diversity in the Amazon: The impact of primers and reference libraries in eDNA surveys.PloS one · 2026Article
- Review
- Ecological Health and Freshwater Pathogen Using eDNA Metabarcoding: A Preliminary Assessment for Environmental Surveillance Development in Malaysia.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Proficiency testing and cross-laboratory method comparison to support standardisation of diatom DNA metabarcoding for freshwater biomonitoring.Metabarcoding and metagenomics · 2025Article
- Molecular genetics as evidence of environmental harm in ecocriminological analysis.Open research Europe · 2025Article
- Measuring the state of aquatic environments using eDNA-upscaling spatial resolution of biotic indices.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The dilemma of underestimating freshwater biodiversity: morphological and molecular approaches.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Global arthropod beta-diversity is spatially and temporally structured by latitude.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Citizen science meets eDNA: A new boom in research exploring urban wetland biodiversity.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2023Article
- Catchment-based sampling of river eDNA integrates terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of alpine landscapes.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Modelling environmental DNA transport in rivers reveals highly resolved spatio-temporal biodiversity patterns.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Spatio-temporal patterns of multi-trophic biodiversity and food-web characteristics uncovered across a river catchment using environmental DNA.Communications biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Rapidly assessing biodiversity is essential for environmental monitoring; however, traditional approaches are limited in the scope needed for most ecological systems. Environmental DNA (eDNA) based assessment offers enhanced scope for assessing biodiversity, while also increasing sampling efficiency and reducing processing time, compared to traditional methods. Here we investigated the effects of landuse and seasonality on headwater community richness and functional diversity, via spatio-temporal dynamics, using both eDNA and traditional sampling. We found that eDNA provided greater resolution in assessing biodiversity dynamics in time and space, compared to traditional sampling. Community richness was seasonally linked, peaking in spring and summer, with temporal turnover having a greater effect on community composition compared to localized nestedness. Overall, our assessment of ecosystem function shows that community formation is driven by regional resource availability, implying regional management requirements should be considered. Our findings show that eDNA based ecological assessment is a powerful, rapid and effective assessment strategy that enables complex spatio-temporal studies of community diversity and ecosystem function, previously infeasible using traditional methods.
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