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Mangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity.

Darren YeoAmrita SrivathsanJayanthi PuniamoorthyFoo MaoshengPatrick GrootaertLena ChanBenoit GuénardClaas DamkenRodzay A WahabAng YuchenRudolf Meier
Published in: BMC biology (2021)
The discovery of such a sizeable and distinct insect fauna in a globally threatened habitat underlines how little is known about global insect biodiversity. We here show how such knowledge gaps can be closed quickly with new cost-effective NGS barcoding techniques.
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