Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8364422 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2015 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
These developments offer unprecedented scientific and operational opportunities in order to better understand soil biodiversity distribution and dynamics, and to propose tools and strategies for biodiversity diagnosis. However, these opportunities also come with challenges that the scientific community must face. Such challenges are related to i) clarification of terminology, (ii) standardisation of methods and further methodological development for additional taxonomic groups, (iii) development of a common database, and (iv) ways to avoid waste of information and data derived from metabarcoding. In order to facilitate common application of metabarcoding in soil biodiversity assessment, we discuss these opportunities and challenges and propose solutions towards a more homogeneous framework.
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Authors
Alberto Orgiazzi, Martha Bonnet Dunbar, Panos Panagos, Gerard Arjen de Groot, Philippe Lemanceau,