M. Hajibabaei

Fungal community dynamics and carbon mineralization in coarse woody debris across decay stage, tree species, and stand development stage in northern boreal forests

This study examines fungal community dynamics and carbon mineralization in coarse woody debris across tree species, decay stages, and stand development stages in boreal forests, finding significant differences in fungal composition and carbon mineralization rates.

Multi-marker metabarcoding resolves subtle variations in freshwater condition: Bioindicators, ecological traits, and trophic interactions

This study uses DNA metabarcoding to assess freshwater ecological condition by analyzing taxonomic and trophic diversity across sites with varying habitat quality.

Environmental DNA as a management tool fortracking artificial waterhole use in savanna ecosystems

This study compares eDNA metabarcoding and camera traps to track mammal use of artificial waterholes in Kruger National Park, finding eDNA can detect many species but has temporal limitations.

Deconstructing biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships: Filtering of macroinvertebrate traits in a large river floodplain

The paper examines biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in floodplain wetlands by analyzing macroinvertebrate traits and environmental factors across 60 sites.

The Red Queen's Crown: an evolutionary arms race between coronaviruses and mammalian species reflected in positive selection of the ACE2 receptor among many species

This study examines positive selection in the ACE2 receptor across mammalian species to explore an evolutionary arms race between coronaviruses and hosts.

The effects of Hurricane Otto on the soil ecosystems of three forest types in the Northern Zone of Costa Rica

This study examines how Hurricane Otto affected soil ecosystems in three Costa Rican forest types by comparing microbial communities and soil nutrients before and after the event.

The utility of a metagenomics approach for marine biomonitoring

This study compares metabarcoding and metagenomics for marine biomonitoring, finding metabarcoding more efficient but metagenomics effective for biodiversity and ecosystem health inference.

Studying ecosystems with DNA metabarcoding: lessons from aquatic biomonitoring

The paper evaluates DNA metabarcoding's potential and challenges in ecological studies, focusing on its application in freshwater ecosystems and its implications for biodiversity monitoring.

Metabarcoding a Metacommunity: detecting change in a wetland wilderness

The paper uses DNA metabarcoding to detect ecological changes in a wetland, showing it captures more taxa and reveals stochastic community dynamics than traditional methods.

Validating metabarcoding-based biodiversity assessments with multi-species occupancy models: a case study using coastal marine eDNA

The paper develops a multi-species occupancy model to improve biodiversity assessments from eDNA metabarcoding data by accounting for detection bias and environmental variation.

Variations in terrestrial arthropod DNA metabarcoding methods recovers robust beta diversity but variable richness and site indicators based on exact sequence variants

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.

Watered-down biodiversity? A comparison of metabarcoding results from DNA extracted from matched water and bulk tissue biomonitoring samples

The paper compares DNA metabarcoding results from water and bulk benthic samples, finding that water samples poorly represent taxa compared to bulk samples.

Over 2.5 million COI sequences in GenBank and growing

The paper analyzes COI sequence growth in GenBank, highlighting trends and suggesting improvements for future metabarcode usability.