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  • Environmental Science

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  • Freshwater ecosystems face agricultural pressures, necessitating effective biomonitoring for insect decline.
  • Morphological identification and coarse taxonomy in biomonitoring can obscure community patterns.
  • DNA metabarcoding offers a molecular approach to enhance biodiversity assessments in streams.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity and variability at small spatial scales using DNA metabarcoding.
  • To assess the implications of local-scale community heterogeneity for biomonitoring protocols.
  • To explore the relationship between agricultural land use and local community variability in streams.

Main Methods:

  • Sampling of aquatic macroinvertebrates from twenty streams in southern Ontario, Canada.
  • Application of bulk-tissue DNA metabarcoding for molecular identification.
  • Comparison of field replicates (10 meters apart) to assess local community variability.

Main Results:

  • High aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity and local taxonomic turnover were detected at small spatial scales.
  • Over 1600 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) were identified, with Chironomidae being a dominant family.
  • Within-stream dissimilarity was consistently high, regardless of taxonomic resolution or agricultural land use intensity.

Conclusions:

  • Aquatic macroinvertebrate communities display significant variability at local scales, impacting biomonitoring.
  • DNA metabarcoding provides a powerful tool for detailed biodiversity assessments in freshwater ecosystems.
  • Future biomonitoring protocols should account for high local-scale variability to accurately assess ecological conditions.