Deirdre Kerdraon

Global homeostatic forces shape the composition of a hyperdiverse tropical insect fauna

The paper estimates Madagascar's insect fauna contains at least 250,000 species, most unrecorded, and finds global homeostatic forces, not lineage composition, shape its ecological similarity to temperate forests.

Is there a fly in my soup? To what extent do metabarcoding and individual barcoding tell the same story?

This study compares metabarcoding and individual barcoding of insect samples, finding they yield similar community structure but metabarcoding adds more species due to DNA residues.

Common to rare transfer learning (CORAL) enables inference and prediction for a quarter million rare Malagasy arthropods

The paper introduces CORAL, a transfer learning method that improves prediction and inference for rare species using DNA metabarcoding data from Madagascar.