Usporedite metode

	eDNA Metabarcoding	Krivulja akumulacije vrsta
Područje	Ekologija	Ekologija
Obitelj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Godina nastanka	2012	1968
Tvorac	Pierre Taberlet	Henry Sanders
Vrsta	species detection and community assessment	biodiversity quantification and comparison
Temeljni izvor	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.
Drugi nazivi	eDNA, metabarcoding, DNA metabarcoding, genetic monitoring	rarefaction, species accumulation curve, species richness curve
Srodne	4	4
Sažetak	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.