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Seymour M, Roslin T, deWaard JR, K. Perez HJ, D’Souza ML, Ratnasingham S, Ashfaq M, Levesque-Beaudin V, Blagoev GA, Bukowski B, Cale P, Crosbie D, Decaëns T, deWaard SL, Ekrem T, El-Ansary HO, Evouna Ondo F, Fraser D, Geiger MF, Hajibabaei M, Hallwachs W, Hanisch PE, Hausmann A,  Heath M, Hogg ID, Janzen DH, Kinnaird M, Kohn JR,  Larrivée M, Lees DC, León-Règagnon V, Liddell M, Lijtmaer DA, Lipinskaya T, Locke SA, Manjunath R, Martins DJ, M. Martins B, Mazumdar S, McKeown JTA, Anderson-Teixeria K, Miller SE, Milton MA, Miskie R, Morinière J, Mutanen M, Naik S, Nichols B, Noguera FA, Novotny V, Penev L, Pentinsaari M, Quinn J, Ramsay L, Rochefort R, Schmidt S, Smith MA, Sobel CN, Somervuo P, Sones JE, Staude HS, St. Jaques B, Stur E, Telfer AC, Tubaro PL, Wardlaw TJ, Worcester R, Yang Z, Young MR, Zemlak T, Zakharov EV, Zlotnick B, Ovaskainen O & Hebert  PDN (2024). "Global arthropod beta-diversity is spatially and temporally structured by latitude." Communications Biology 7(1): 552. LINK


Perry WB*, Seymour M*, Orsini L, Jâms IB, Milner N, Edwards F, Harvey R, de Bruyn M, Bista I, Walsh K, Emmett B, Blackman R, Altermatt F, Handley LL, Mächler E, Deiner K, Bik H M, Carvalho G, Colbourne J, Cosby BJ, Durance & I, Creer S. (2024). "An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding." Nature Communications 15(1): 4372. LINK *co-first authors


Seymour, M, Guibert I, Jeunen GJ, Hellström M, Leray M, Elbrect V, Lau A, Cutracci M, How CM, Ip JCH & Liu Z, (2024) The First International eDNA Workshop in Hong Kong: A beginner's guide for the next‐generation eDNA researcher. Environmental DNA, 6(3), p.e552. LINK


Smith A, Milner N, Papadopoulos A, Seymour M, & Carvahlo, G. (2024). Using swim‐up traps to assess Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) spawning habitat and the phenology and density of emergent fry. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 31(1), e12648. LINK


Seymour M & Smith A. (2023) Arctic char occurrence and abundance using environmental DNA. Freshwater Biology. LINK


Oosthuizen D, Seymour M, Atkinson LJ, von der Heyden S. (2023) Extending deep-sea benthic biodiversity inventories with environmental DNA metabarcoding. Marine Biology, 170(5), 60. LINK


Seymour M. (2022) Environmental DNA advancing our understanding and conservation of inland waters. Elsevier. PDF


Czachur MV, Seymour M, Creer S, von der Heyden S. (2022) Increased eDNA sample replication improves biodiversity assessment reliability across diverse marine environments. eDNA PDF


Yang J, Zhang X, Jin X, Seymour M, Richter C, Logares R, et al. (2021) Recent advances in environmental DNA-based biodiversity assessment and conservation. Diversity and Distributions, 27 1876–1879. PDF


Bohmann K, Elbrecht V, Carøe C, Bista I, Leese F, Bunce M, Yu DW, Seymour M, Dumbrell A, Creer S (2021) Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies. Molecular Ecology Resources PDF


Bruce K, Blackman RC, Bourlat S, Hellstrom M, Bakker J, Bista I, Bouchez A, Brys R, Clark K, Elbrecht V, Fazi S, Hanfling B, Leese F, Machler E, Mahon AR, Meissner K, Panksep K, Pawlowski J, Seymour M, … Deiner K (2021) A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment. Pensoft Publishers. PDF


Seymour M, Edwards F, Cosby J, Scarlet P, Bista I, Brailsford F, Glanville H, de Bruyn M, Carvalho G, Creer S. (2021) Environmental DNA provides higher resolution assessment of riverine biodiversity and ecosystem function via spatio-temporal nestedness and turnover partitioning. Communications Biology. PDF


Seymour M, Brown N, Carvalho GR, Wood C, Goertz S, Lo N, de Bruyn M. (2020) Ecological community dynamics: 20 years of moth sampling reveals the importance of generalists for community stability. Basic and Applied Ecology PDF


Seymour M, Edwards F, Cosby J, de Bruyn M, Carvalho G, Creer S. Executing multi-taxa eDNA ecological assessment via traditional metrics and interactive networks (2020) Science of the Total Environment PDF


Moushomi R, Wilgar G, Carvalho GR, Creer S, Seymour M. (2019) Environmental DNA is subcellular and nuclear; findings from a temporal, size-sorting mesocosm experiment. Scientific Reports PDF


Seymour M, Kristjánsson BK, Räsänen K. (2019) Drift versus selection as drivers of phenotypic divergence at small spatial scales: The case of Belgjarskógur threespine stickleback. Ecology and Evolution PDF


Seymour M (2019) Rapid progression and future of environmental DNA research. Communications Biology DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0330-9 PDF


Pennekamp F, Pontarp M, Tabi A, Altermatt F, Alther R, Choffat Y, Fronhofer E, Ganesanandamoorthy P, Garnier A, Griffiths J, Greene S, Horgan K, Massie T, Mächler E, Palamara GM, Seymour M, Petchey O. (2019) Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability Nature PDF


Deiner K, Lopez J, Bourne S, Holman L, Seymour M, Grey EK, Lacoursière A, Li Y, Renshaw MA, Pfrender ME, Rius M, Bernatchez L, Lodge DM. (2019) Optimising the detection of marine taxonomic richness using environmental DNA metabarcoding: the effects of filter material, pore size and extraction method MBMG PDF


Bista I, Carvalho G; Tang M, Walsh K; Zhou X, Hajibabaei M, Shokrall, S, Seymour M, Bradley D, Christmas M, Liu S, Creer S (2018) Performance of amplicon and shotgun sequencing for accurate biomass estimation in invertebrate community samples Molecular Ecology Resources PDF


Seymour M, Durance I, Cosby BJ, Ransom-Jones E, Deiner K, Wilgar G, Ormerod SJ, Colbourne JK, Edwards F, Bik H, Emmett BA, deBruyn M, Carvalho G, Creer S. (2018) Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species eDNA in lotic mesocosms. Communications Biology PDF


Deiner K, Bik H, Mächler E, Seymour M, Lacoursière-Roussel A, Altermatt F, Creer S, Bista I, Lodge D, de Vere N, Pfrender M, Bernatchez L. (2017) Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities. Molecular Ecology PDF


Seymour M, Driese KL, Waggener RW. (2017) Vegetation mapping of Rogers Research Site, north Laramie Mountains, Wyoming, using high spatial resolution photography and heads-up digitizing. Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 4 PDF


Pennekamp F, Griffiths JI, Fronhofer EA, Garnier A, Seymour M, Altermatt F, Petchey OL. (2017) Dynamic species classification of microorganisms across time, abiotic and biotic environments – a sliding window approach. PlosOne PDF


Bista I, Carvalho G, Walsh K, Seymour M, Hajibabaei M, Lallias D, Christmas M, Creer S. (2017) Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity. Nature Communications PDF


Creer S, Seymour M (2017) Marine ecology: Genetics from a drop in the ocean. Nature Ecology and Evolution PDF


Seymour M, K Liljeroos, E Mächler, F Altermatt. (2016) Lessons from the macroinvertebrates: species-genetic diversity correlations highlight important dissimilar relationships. Freshwater Biology PDF


Seymour M, Perera OP, Fescemyer HW, Jackson RE, Fleischer SJ, Abel CA. (2016) Peripheral genetic structure of Bollworm (Helicoverpa zea) indicates asynchronous panmixia. Ecology and Evolution PDF


Seymour M, Deiner K, Altermatt F. (2016) Scale and scope matter when explaining varying patterns of community composition in river networks. Basic and Applied Ecology PDF


Carrara F, Giometto A, Seymour M, Rinaldo A, Altermatt F. (2015) Inferring species interactions in ecological communities: a comparison of methods at different levels of complexity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution PDF


Seymour M, Fronhofer E, Altermatt F. (2015) Dendritic network structure and dispersal affect temporal dynamics of diversity and species persistence. Oikos PDF


Carrara F, Giometto A, Seymour, M, Rinaldo A, Altermatt F. (2015) Experimental evidence for strong stabilizing forces at high functional diversity of aquatic microbial communities. Ecology PDF


Seymour M, Altermatt F (2014) Active colonization dynamics and diversity patterns are influenced by dendritic network connectivity and species interactions. Ecology and Evolution PDF


Altermatt F, Seymour M, Martinez N (2013) River network properties shape α-diversity and community similarity patterns of aquatic insect communities across major drainage basins. Journal of Biogeography PDF


Seymour M, Räsänen K, Holderegger R, Kristjánsson BK (2013) Connectivity in a pond system influences migration and genetic structure in threespine stickleback. Ecology and Evolution PDF


Seymour MS, Ott KE, Guertin DA, Golden HN, McDonald DB, Ben-David M. (2012) Early Holocene glacial retreat isolated populations of river otters (Lontra canadensis) along the Alaskan coast. Canadian Journal of Zoology PDF