TICI: a taxon-independent community index for eDNA-based ecological health assessment.

ABSTRACT: Global biodiversity is declining at an ever-increasing rate. Yet effective policies to mitigate or reverse these declines require ecosystem condition data that are rarely available. Morphology-based bioassessment methods are difficult to scale, limited in scope, suffer prohibitive costs, require skilled taxonomists, and can be applied inconsistently between practitioners. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding offers a powerful, reproducible and scalable solution that can survey across the tree-of-life with relatively low cost and minimal expertise for sample collection. However, there remains a need to condense the complex, multidimensional community information into simple, interpretable metrics of ecological health for environmental management purposes. We developed a riverine taxon-ind

SUBMITTER: Wilkinson SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10903356 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature