{
  "id": 8007058,
  "title": "Environmental DNA substrates capture complementary dimensions of insect biodiversity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/environmental-dna-substrates-capture-complementary-dimensions-of",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.13.750568v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has become a powerful approach for biodiversity assessment, yet whether different environmental substrates provide equivalent or complementary representations of terrestrial biodiversity remains unresolved. Here we addressed this question by comparing insect assemblages recovered from Malaise traps and six environmental substrates (water, sediment, soil,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}