Michael Wright

This study uses eDNA metabarcoding to assess biodiversity in an agriculturally impacted watershed, finding greater taxonomic richness and clearer land-use patterns compared to traditional morphology-based methods.

The paper uses DNA metabarcoding to detect environmental gradients in an urban harbour, showing greater variation in species rank assessments compared to morphological methods.

This study compares propylene glycol-based antifreeze and ethanol as preservatives for DNA metabarcoding of benthic arthropods, finding antifreeze provides similar taxonomic coverage with simpler processing.

This study shows that COI primer choice affects arthropod richness and indicator taxa recovery in freshwater samples, suggesting multiple primer sets should be used for maximum diversity detection.