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Message in a Bottle-Metabarcoding enables biodiversity comparisons across ecoregions.
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- Method comparison of microscopy, metabarcoding, and multispectral imaging flow cytometry for identification and relative abundance analysis of insect-dispersed pollen.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Characterizing a species-rich and understudied tropical insect fauna using DNA barcoding.GigaScience · 2026Article
- CODABEILLES: a reliable reference library of COI DNA barcodes for French wild bees monitoring (Apoidea: Anthophila).BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Data on insect biodiversity in a Chinese potato agroecosystem from DNA metabarcoding.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Metabarcoding arthropods in agroecosystems in Southern Ontario, Canada.Biodiversity data journal · 2025Article
- DNA barcodes provide insights into the diversity and biogeography of the non-biting midgeEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- Hidden diversity: DNA metabarcoding reveals hyper-diverse benthic invertebrate communities.BMC ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- FAVIS: Fast and versatile protocol for non-destructive metabarcoding of bulk insect samples.PloS one · 2023Article
- From DNA barcodes to ecology: Meta-analysis of central European beetles reveal link with species ecology but also to data pattern and gaps.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Message in a Bottle-Metabarcoding enables biodiversity comparisons across ecoregions.GigaScience · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundTraditional biomonitoring approaches have delivered a basic understanding of biodiversity, but they cannot support the large-scale assessments required to manage and protect entire ecosystems. This study used DNA metabarcoding to assess spatial and temporal variation in species richness and diversity in arthropod communities from 52 protected areas spanning 3 Canadian ecoregions.
resultsThis study revealed the presence of 26,263 arthropod species in the 3 ecoregions and indicated that at least another 3,000-5,000 await detection. Results further demonstrate that communities are more similar within than between ecoregions, even after controlling for geographical distance. Overall α-diversity declined from east to west, reflecting a gradient in habitat disturbance. Shifts in species composition were high at every site, with turnover greater than nestedness, suggesting the presence of many transient species.
conclusionsDifferences in species composition among their arthropod communities confirm that ecoregions are a useful synoptic for biogeographic patterns and for structuring conservation efforts. The present results also demonstrate that metabarcoding enables large-scale monitoring of shifts in species composition, making it possible to move beyond the biomass measurements that have been the key metric used in prior efforts to track change in arthropod communities.
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