Variations in terrestrial arthropod DNA metabarcoding methods recovers robust beta diversity but variable richness and site indicators based on exact sequence variants
T. M. Porter, D. M. Morris, N. Basiliko, M. Hajibabaei, D. Doucet, S. Bowman, E. J. S. Emilson, C. E. Emilson, D. Chartrand, K. Wainio-Keizer, A. Seguin, L. Venier
This study evaluates DNA metabarcoding methods for soil arthropods, finding that individual sampling increases richness but pooling maintains beta diversity, with limitations in species identification.
bioRxiv · Jul 5, 2019Ecology