The Neotropical realm still represents a great challenge to our understanding of species distribution patterns and the role played by different drivers of biodiversity. The paper by Coutant et al. (2022) is a great advance towards a holistic approach to quantifying the contribution of environmental and anthropogenic factors that drive community assembly in the Amazon, and how we can apply such knowledge to guide future monitoring programmes. Disentangling the relative roles played by multiple drivers of biodiversity allowed them to also highlight hotspot areas hosting unique freshwater fish diversity and to pinpoint conservation priorities.
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Carvalho, D. C., & Leal, C. G. (2023). Steps forward in biomonitoring 2.0: eDNA Metabarcoding and community-level modelling allow the assessment of complex drivers of Neotropical fish diversity. Global Change Biology, 29, 1688– 1690. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16596 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16596 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
