Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis
Abstract
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.
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BibTeX
@article{arribas2026connecting,
title = {{Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis}},
author = {Paula Arribas and Carmelo Andújar and Martin Bidartondo and Kristine Bohmann and Éric Coissac and Simon Creer and Jeremy Dewaard and Vasco Elbrecht and Gentile Ficetola and Marta Goberna and Susan Kennedy and Henrik Krehenwinkel and Florian Leese and Vojtech Novotny and Fredrik Ronquist and Douglas Yu and Lucie Zinger and Thomas Creedy and Emmanouil Meramveliotakis and Víctor Noguerales and Isaac Overcast and Hélène Morlon and Alfried Vogler and Anna Papadopoulou and Brent Emerson},
journal = {Molecular Ecology},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1111/mec.15797},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-03358499v1},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis
AU - Paula Arribas
AU - Carmelo Andújar
AU - Martin Bidartondo
AU - Kristine Bohmann
AU - Éric Coissac
AU - Simon Creer
AU - Jeremy Dewaard
AU - Vasco Elbrecht
AU - Gentile Ficetola
AU - Marta Goberna
AU - Susan Kennedy
AU - Henrik Krehenwinkel
AU - Florian Leese
AU - Vojtech Novotny
AU - Fredrik Ronquist
AU - Douglas Yu
AU - Lucie Zinger
AU - Thomas Creedy
AU - Emmanouil Meramveliotakis
AU - Víctor Noguerales
AU - Isaac Overcast
AU - Hélène Morlon
AU - Alfried Vogler
AU - Anna Papadopoulou
AU - Brent Emerson
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/30
JO - Molecular Ecology
DO - 10.1111/mec.15797
UR - https://hal.science/hal-03358499v1
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.
SN - 0962-1083
SN - 1365-294X
ER -