FLAPS is a simple way to remember how microbes shape marine food webs and the carbon cycle.It stands for Fungi, Labile DOM, Aggregates, Parasites, and Sinks. It’s a conceptual shortcut used by some marine ecologists to highlight processes that classic “phyto,...
The scooping pond water and instantly knowing every fish, frog, insect, algae, and microbe living there. Metabarcoding makes this possible by reading environmental DNA (eDNA) from a single sample.It includes the following steps, Collect water, soil, or air. Extract...
