Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin

Towards whole plastome phylogeography: resolving small genetic distances among European Arnica montana L. with the PlastidPipeline

<title>Abstract</title> <italic>Arnica montana</italic> L. is a medicinal plant endemic to Europe and declining in large parts of its range. Low sequence diversity in genetic marker regions caused biogeographic patterns and the phylogenetic relationship between <italic>A. montana...

eDNA metabarcoding provides scalable and continuous biodiversity monitoring across the tree of life

Abstract Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has the potential to substantially expand our knowledge of global biodiversity beyond that provided by conventional approaches. However, the degree to which eDNA data provides real ecological insight, rather than primarily reflectin...