Post provided by Ela Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht The journey from scepticism to abundance estimates When I moved to Sweden in 2019 to start a postdoc, I entered a completely new research field. My background was in evolutionary biology, but I knew very little about DNA metabarcoding (identifying many species at once by sequencing barcode DNA from mixed samples). I was joining a project that was developing methods … Continue reading Make insect metabarcoding quantitative? Challenge accepted.