TY - JOUR

T1 - Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis

AU - Arribas, Paula

AU - Andujar, Carmelo

AU - Bidartondo, Martin I.

AU - Bohmann, Kristine

AU - Coissac, Eric

AU - Creer, Simon

AU - deWaard, Jeremy R.

AU - Elbrecht, Vasco

AU - Ficetola, Gentile F.

AU - Goberna, Marta

AU - Kennedy, Susan

AU - Krehenwinkel, Henrik

AU - Leese, Florian

AU - Novotny, Vojtech

AU - Ronquist, Fredrik

AU - Yu, Douglas W.

AU - Zinger, Lucie

AU - Creedy, Thomas J.

AU - Meramveliotakis, Emmanouil

AU - Noguerales, Victor

AU - Overcast, Isaac

AU - Morlon, Helene

AU - Vogler, Alfred P.

AU - Papadopoulou, Anna

AU - Emerson, Brent C.

N1 - © 2021 The Authors. Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

PY - 2021/3/1

Y1 - 2021/3/1

N2 - High‐throughput sequencing (HTS) is increasingly being used for the characterization and monitoring of biodiversity. If applied in a structured way, across broad geographical scales, it offers the potential for a much deeper understanding of global biodiversity through the integration of massive quantities of molecular inventory data generated independently at local, regional and global scales. The universality, reliability and efficiency of HTS data can potentially facilitate the seamless linking of data among species assemblages from different sites, at different hierarchical levels of diversity, for any taxonomic group and regardless of prior taxonomic knowledge. However, collective international efforts are required to optimally exploit the potential of site‐based HTS data for global integration and synthesis, efforts that at present are limited to the microbial domain. To contribute to the development of an analogous strategy for the nonmicrobial terrestrial domain, an international symposium entitled “Next Generation Biodiversity Monitoring” was held in November 2019 in Nicosia (Cyprus). The symposium brought together evolutionary geneticists, ecologists and biodiversity scientists involved in diverse regional and global initiatives using HTS as a core tool for biodiversity assessment. In this review, we summarize the consensus that emerged from the 3‐day symposium. We converged on the opinion that an effective terrestrial Genomic Observatories network for global biodiversity integration and synthesis should be spatially led and strategically united under the umbrella of the metabarcoding approach. Subsequently, we outline an HTS‐based strategy to collectively build an integrative framework for site‐based biodiversity data generation.

AB - High‐throughput sequencing (HTS) is increasingly being used for the characterization and monitoring of biodiversity. If applied in a structured way, across broad geographical scales, it offers the potential for a much deeper understanding of global biodiversity through the integration of massive quantities of molecular inventory data generated independently at local, regional and global scales. The universality, reliability and efficiency of HTS data can potentially facilitate the seamless linking of data among species assemblages from different sites, at different hierarchical levels of diversity, for any taxonomic group and regardless of prior taxonomic knowledge. However, collective international efforts are required to optimally exploit the potential of site‐based HTS data for global integration and synthesis, efforts that at present are limited to the microbial domain. To contribute to the development of an analogous strategy for the nonmicrobial terrestrial domain, an international symposium entitled “Next Generation Biodiversity Monitoring” was held in November 2019 in Nicosia (Cyprus). The symposium brought together evolutionary geneticists, ecologists and biodiversity scientists involved in diverse regional and global initiatives using HTS as a core tool for biodiversity assessment. In this review, we summarize the consensus that emerged from the 3‐day symposium. We converged on the opinion that an effective terrestrial Genomic Observatories network for global biodiversity integration and synthesis should be spatially led and strategically united under the umbrella of the metabarcoding approach. Subsequently, we outline an HTS‐based strategy to collectively build an integrative framework for site‐based biodiversity data generation.

KW - DNA metabarcoding

KW - Genomic Observatories

KW - biodiversity assessment

KW - harmonized data generation

KW - high-throughput sequencing

U2 - 10.1111/mec.15797

DO - 10.1111/mec.15797

M3 - Article

C2 - 33432777

VL - 30

SP - 1120

EP - 1135

JO - Molecular Ecology

JF - Molecular Ecology

SN - 0962-1083

IS - 5

ER -