Metabarcoding unsorted kick-samples facilitates macroinvertebrate-based biomonitoring with increased taxonomic resolution, while outperforming environmental DNA
L. Pereira da Conceicoa, V. Elbrecht, A. C. Hall, A. Briscoe, H. Barber-James, B. Price
This study compares DNA-based and morphological methods for macroinvertebrate biomonitoring, finding that unsorted samples provide equivalent water quality scores but higher diversity than sorted or eDNA samples.
bioRxiv · Oct 4, 2019Ecology