ArticleMolecular ecology resources2026
Sampling Design and Sample Processing Affect Soil Biodiversity Assessments.
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- Benchmarking Full-Length ITS Metabarcoding Across Illumina 2 × 500, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Using Mock and Soil Communities.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
- Global dataset of soil eukaryotic communities created with a uniform protocol and long read sequencing.Scientific data · 2026Article
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Biodiversity surveys require an appropriate sampling design for optimal performance and comparability across space and time and across studies. Based on PacBio and Illumina amplicon sequencing of animals, bacteria and fungi, we assessed and compared various soil sampling designs from widely used continental and global metabarcoding-based biodiversity projects. Sampling designs revealed up to 27-fold, 6-fold and 15-fold differences in biodiversity estimates for animals, bacteria and fungi, respectively. Taxonomic coverage depended mostly on the number of subsamples but not sampling area within the 347-1790 m
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