Advancing Marine Conservation: Metabarcoding and Metaphylogeography for a Multi‐Year Biomonitoring of Benthic Communities of National Parks Across Two Seas

We have applied a combined metabarcoding and metaphylogeography approach to temporal monitoring of marine protected areas. Biomonitoring is central to conservation, and new molecular methods, in particular metabarcoding‐based techniques, are changing our ability to track diversity in space and time. Protected areas are a cornerstone of conservation policies whose correct management requires sound time series data.

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  2025

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  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

• Publication date

  2025-11-01

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  DOI 10.1111/ddi.70121
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