Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding
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To manage and conserve biodiversity, one must know what is being lost, where, and why, as well as which remedies are likely to be most effective. Metabarcoding technology can characterise the species compositions of mass samples of eukaryotes or of environmental DNA . Here, we validate metabarcoding by testing it against three high‐quality standard data sets that were collected in Malaysia (tropical), China (subtropical) and the United Kingdom (temperate) and that comprised 55,813 arthropod and bird specimens identified to species level with the expenditure of 2,505 person‐hours of taxonomic expertise. The metabarcode and standard data sets exhibit statistically correlated alpha‐ and beta‐diversities, and the two data sets produce similar policy conclusions for two conservation applications: restoration ecology and systematic conservation planning. Compared with standard biodiversity data sets, metabarcoded samples are taxonomically more comprehensive, many times quicker to produce, less reliant on taxonomic expertise and auditable by third parties, which is essential for dispute resolution.
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Metabarcoding will widely replace present biomonitoring methods over time because it has higher taxonomic resolution, is cost efficient and fast, and reduces human bias enabling comparisons among studies.
“we are confident that metabarcoding will widely replace present biomonitoring methods over time because 1) it has a higher taxonomic resolution [14], 2) it is cost efficient and fast and, most importantly, 3) it reduces human bias enabling comparisons among studies [57].”
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- Ji, Y., Ashton, L., Pedley, S. M., Edwards, D. P., Tang, Y., Nakamura, A., Kitching, R., Dolman, P. M., Woodcock, P., Edwards, F. A., Larsen, T. H., Hsu, W. W., Benedick, S., Hamer, K. C., Wilcove, D. S., Bruce, C., Wang, X., Levi, T., Lott, M., Emerson, B. C., & Yu, D. W.
- Affiliations
- Kunming Institute of Zoology (CN)
- Griffith University (AU)
- University of East Anglia (GB)
- Princeton University (US)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- University of Leeds (GB)
- Conservation International (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- Universiti of Malaysia Sabah (MY)
- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (US)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Yu, Douglas W.
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- Venue
- Ecology Letters
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- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-08-04
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- 16
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1245-1257
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- 1461-023X (ISSN-L)
- 1461-0248
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- W2101462556
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- Funders
- Meadows Foundation
- Princeton University
- High Meadows Foundation
- University of East Anglia
- Griffith University
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170498)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-Z-1027, GJHZ1130, 0902281081, 0902281081, KSCX2-YW-Z-1027)
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Keywords
- metabarcoding, biodiversity monitoring, environmental DNA, arthropods, birds, species composition, alpha and beta diversity, taxonomic validation, restoration ecology, systematic conservation planning, biodiversity conservation
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Arthropods, Electronic Data Processing, Ecology, Environmental Monitoring, Computational Biology, Biodiversity
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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