All Outputs (11)

HAPP: High-Accuracy Pipeline for Processing deep metabarcoding data (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

We introduce HAPP, a high-accuracy pipeline for processing deep metabarcoding data, leveraging data richness to enhance the signal-to-noise-ratio. Starting with denoised amplicon sequence variants, the pipeline consists of four steps: (1) additional... Read More about HAPP: High-Accuracy Pipeline for Processing deep metabarcoding data.

High-throughput biodiversity surveying sheds new light on the brightest of insect taxa (2025)
Journal Article

DNA metabarcoding of species-rich taxa is becoming a popular high-throughput method for biodiversity inventories. Unfortunately, its accuracy and efficiency remain unclear, as results mostly pertain to poorly known taxa in underexplored regions. This... Read More about High-throughput biodiversity surveying sheds new light on the brightest of insect taxa.

Moving towards better risk assessment for invertebrate conservation (2025)
Journal Article

Global change threatens a vast number of species with severe population declines or even extinction. The threat status of an organism is often designated based on geographic range, population size, or declines in either. However, invertebrates, which... Read More about Moving towards better risk assessment for invertebrate conservation.

Biotic and abiotic drivers of ecosystem functioning differ between a temperate and a tropical region (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Any single ecosystem will provide many ecosystem functions. Whether these functions tend to increase in concert or trade off against each other is a question of much current interest. Equally topical are the drivers behind ecosystem function rates. Y... Read More about Biotic and abiotic drivers of ecosystem functioning differ between a temperate and a tropical region.

The transformative potential of eDNA-based biodiversity impact assessment (2025)
Journal Article

Black-grass monitoring using hyperspectral image data is limited by between-site variability (2024)
Journal Article

Many important ecological processes play out over large geographic ranges, and accurate large-scale monitoring of populations is a requirement for their effective management. Of particular interest are agricultural weeds, which cause widespread econo... Read More about Black-grass monitoring using hyperspectral image data is limited by between-site variability.

Temperature and water availability drive insect seasonality across a temperate and a tropical region (2024)
Journal Article

The more insects there are, the more food there is for insectivores and the higher the likelihood for insect-associated ecosystem services. Yet, we lack insights into the drivers of insect biomass over space and seasons, for both tropical and tempera... Read More about Temperature and water availability drive insect seasonality across a temperate and a tropical region.

Asian elephant calf physiology and mahout perspectives during taming in Myanmar (2024)
Journal Article

A quarter of Asian elephants are captive, with greater than 90% of these tamed and cared for by handlers (mahouts) in Asia. Although taming is a much-discussed welfare issue, no studies to our knowledge have empirically assessed its impact on calves,... Read More about Asian elephant calf physiology and mahout perspectives during taming in Myanmar.

Acting pre-emptively reduces the long-term costs of managing herbicide resistance (2024)
Journal Article

Globally, pesticides improve crop yields but at great environmental cost, and their overuse has caused resistance. This incurs large financial and production losses but, despite this, very diversified farm management that might delay or prevent resis... Read More about Acting pre-emptively reduces the long-term costs of managing herbicide resistance.

Quantifying the impacts of management and herbicide resistance on regional plant population dynamics in the face of missing data (2024)
Journal Article

1. A key challenge in the management of populations is to quantify the impact of interventions in the face of environmental and phenotypic variability. However, accurate estimation of the effects of management and environment, in large-scale ecologic... Read More about Quantifying the impacts of management and herbicide resistance on regional plant population dynamics in the face of missing data.

Developing hierarchical density‐structured models to study the national‐scale dynamics of an arable weed (2021)
Journal Article

Population dynamics can be highly variable in the face of environmental heterogeneity, and understanding this variation is central in the study of ecology. Robust management decisions require that we understand how populations respond to management a... Read More about Developing hierarchical density‐structured models to study the national‐scale dynamics of an arable weed.