A central challenge in the present era of biodiversity loss is to assess and manage human
impacts on freshwater ecosystems. Macroinvertebrates are an important group for such …

DNA metabarcoding holds great promise for the assessment of macroinvertebrates in
stream ecosystems. However, few large‐scale studies have compared the performance of …

Encompassing the breadth of biodiversity in biomonitoring programmes has been frustrated
by an inability to simultaneously identify large numbers of species accurately and in a timely …

Macroinvertebrates are used as bioindicators worldwide, but the high diversity of
macroinvertebrate species and endemism in Latin America (LA) requires greater knowledge …

Aquatic biomonitoring has become an essential task in Europe and many other regions as a
consequence of strong anthropogenic pressures affecting the health of lakes, rivers, oceans …

Biodiversity metrics are critical for assessment and monitoring of ecosystems threatened by
anthropogenic stressors. Existing sorting and identification methods are too expensive and …

Metagenomics and total RNA sequencing (total RNA-Seq) have the potential to improve the
taxonomic identification of diverse microbial communities, which could allow for the …

Freshwaters worldwide face serious threats, making their protection increasingly important.
Freshwater monitoring has historically produced valuable data and continues to develop …

Environmental bulk samples often contain many different taxa that vary several orders of
magnitude in biomass. This can be problematic in DNA metabarcoding and metagenomic …

Taxonomic identification accounts for a substantial portion of cost associated with
bioassessment programs across the United States. New analytical approaches, such as …