Plant DNA Barcodes, Community Ecology, and Species Interactions

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: alien woody plants; ASTRAL; barcoding; Barro Colorado Island; behavioral ecology; biobanking; biological collections; Biology, life sciences; bumblebees; bush cricket; conservation; cryptic species; diet specialization; diversification; DNA barcode; DNA barcoding; DNA metabarcoding; Ecological science, the Biosphere; elephant (Loxodonta africana); environmental policy; ForestGEO; fungal barcoding; fungarium; GenBank; geographic mosaic of species interactions; grass pollen; heathlands; high-throughput sequencing; historical specimens; honeybees; horizon scanning; hoverflies; ITS2; katydid; landscape ecology; Life sciences: general issues; Mathematics and Science; matK; medicinal plants; megaherbivores; metabarcoding; montane forest; n/a; natural history collections; Ngel Nyaki; nuclear barcode; Panama; phenotype; phylogenetic community ecology; phylogenetic diversity; phylogenetic signal; phylogeny; plant barcodes; plant–herbivore interactions; plant–pollinator interactions; plastid barcodes; pollen; pollen metabarcoding; pollinators; predicting invasion success; propagule pressure; psbA-trnH; rbcL; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; refugia; Research and information: general; species identification; species interactions; supervised learning; symbioses; trophic interactions; tropical trees; unsupervised learning; viridiplantae
• ISBN: 9783036560434; 3036560440; 9783036560441; 3036560432
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6044-1

The community of biologists has been eager to realize the promise of DNA barcodes since the concept was first proposed in 2003. As we approach twenty years of DNA barcoding, their application continues to increase, and methods continue to be developed that utilize this ever-expanding resource for multiple fields of biology. The nearly ten million DNA barcodes available today provide a database that is especially useful for ecology and evolutionary biology. Thanks to these large and well-curated DNA barcode resources, fundamental biological questions can be more rigorously addressed regarding community evolution, assembly, herbivory, pollination, and species interactions across and among diverse habitats and organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms. This reprint illustrates the wide variety of applications of DNA barcodes, especially in plants, to tackle research topics in ecology, evolutionary biology, plant–animal interactions, taxonomy, conservation, and ethnobotany.