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	Μεταμπαρκοκωδικοποίηση περιβαλλοντικού DNA (eDNA)	Καμπύλη Συσσώρευσης Ειδών
Πεδίο	Οικολογία	Οικολογία
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2012	1968
Δημιουργός	Pierre Taberlet	Henry Sanders
Τύπος	species detection and community assessment	biodiversity quantification and comparison
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Taberlet, P., Coissac, E., Hajibabaei, M., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2012). Environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology, 21(8), 1789-1793.	Colwell, R. K. (1994). Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 345(1311), 101-118.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	eDNA, metabarcoding, DNA metabarcoding, genetic monitoring	rarefaction, species accumulation curve, species richness curve
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding detects and identifies species present in environmental samples (water, soil, air) by sequencing short DNA fragments released by organisms. Developed by Taberlet and colleagues (2012), this approach has revolutionized biodiversity monitoring: species can be surveyed without capture, observation, or complex sampling designs. Metabarcoding sequences millions of DNA fragments, identifies reads taxonomically, and assigns them to species. The method is non-invasive, rapid, and cost-effective, enabling large-scale biodiversity surveys and early detection of cryptic or rare species.	Species accumulation curves describe how the number of observed species increases with cumulative sampling effort. Introduced by Sanders (1968) and developed by Colwell and colleagues, this method enables ecologists to compare biodiversity across sites and estimate total species richness despite incomplete sampling. It addresses a fundamental challenge in ecology: observed species counts are biased by sampling intensity.