Environmental filtering along a bathymetric gradient : a metabarcoding meta‐analysis of free‐living nematodes Universiteit Gent Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Identifying and understanding patterns of biological diversity is crucial at a time when even the most remote and pristine marine ecosystems are threatened by resource exploitation such as deep‐seabed mining. Metabarcoding provides the means through which one can perform comprehensive investigations of diversity by examining entire assemblages simultaneously. Nematodes commonly represent the most abundant infaunal metazoan group in marine soft ...