Henrik Krehenwinkel

6 days ago | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Amadeus Plewnia |Henrik Krehenwinkel |Christopher Heine

1 INTRODUCTION Simple, cost efficient and exhaustive characterization of species communities is key to understanding global biodiversity change and ecosystem health. Metabarcoding is a rapidly advancing field, allowing standardized community-wide barcoding from non-invasive samples with broad applications from bulk barcoding to environmental DNA (eDNA) and microbiome research (Compson et al., 2020; Creer et al., 2016; Gillespie et al., 2023; Keck et al., 2022; Lange et al., 2014).