This blog post is provided by Emil Ellegaard Thomassen and Philip Francis Thomsen and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, they use eDNA analysis to give a detailed picture of species communities in the dung pads at … Continue reading Monitoring successional appearance of dung-associated insects with environmental DNA