Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest.

Tropical forests shelter an unparalleled biological diversity. The relative influence of environmental selection (i.e.

Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data.

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is increasingly used to study the present and past biodiversity. eDNA analyses often rely on amplification of very small quantities or degraded DNA. To avoid missing detection of taxa that are actually present (false negatives), multiple extractions and amplifications of the same samples are often performed.