Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest
control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area …

The nitrogen (N) cycle is one of the most important nutrient cycles in river systems, and it
plays an important role in maintaining biogeochemical balance and global climate stability …

Fungal communities associated with plants and soil influence plant fitness and ecosystem
functioning. They are frequently studied by metabarcoding approaches targeting the …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a sensitive and widely used approach for
species detection and biodiversity assessment. The most common eDNA collection method …

Pioneering investigations on the effects of introduced populations on community structure,
ecosystem functioning and services have focused on the effects of invaders on taxonomic …

The construction of increasingly detailed species interaction networks is extending the
potential applications of network ecology, providing an opportunity to understand complex …

The distribution of marine plastic litter is unequal around the world, some areas being more
polluted. Given that the Arctic is not a highly populated area, very low levels of plastics are …

Wastewater is discarded from several sources, including industry, livestock, fertilizer
application, and municipal waste. If the disposed of wastewater has not been treated and …

The diversity of plant-associated microbes is enormous and complex. These microbiomes
are structured and form complex interconnected microbial networks that are important in …

DNA-based methodology has proven to be a vital tool for ecosystem assessment and
monitoring. Increasingly, high-throughput approaches such as DNA metabarcoding are …