Environmental DNA detects biodiversity and ecological features of phytoplankton communities in Mediterranean transitional waters.

ABSTRACT: Climate changes and anthropogenic pressures are causing a biodiversity decline in terms of species number and genetic diversity, reducing the adaptability and evolvability of natural communities. Transitional water ecosystems are more sensitive to habitat reduction and degradation and, thus, are more exposed to biodiversity declines requiring biodiversity monitoring programs for their conservation. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding represents a high-throughput tool for biodiversity assessment that is facilitating data collection for biodiversity monitoring. In this study, we applied, for the first time, eDNA metabarcoding in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon to assess the ecological features of eukaryotic phytoplankton communities. We sampled water in seven different lagoon sites and amp

SUBMITTER: Specchia V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10502138 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature