Table 1 Number of individuals and species of ants, springtails and termites (with BINs; traditional samples) and number of reads, reads in BINs, reads in OTUs and species (metabarcoding samples) recorded in samples grouped by location.

From: Comparison of traditional and DNA metabarcoding samples for monitoring tropical soil arthropods (Formicidae, Collembola and Isoptera)

Location

Taxonomic samples

Metabarcoding samples

Reads in OTUsc

No. Spp

No. ind

No. Spp

Total readsa

Reads in BINsb

ARM1

401

38

2,959,781

707,227

736,268

43

ARM2

441

40

3,253,108

646,202

1,073,925

41

ARM3

656

65

3,650,551

929,015

856,161

56

ARM4

774

57

3,337,128

135,814

1,397,542

42

BAL1

274

42

2,804,034

622,318

876,746

38

DRA1

344

39

2,623,464

345,515

934,815

42

WHE1

361

42

2,351,194

627,690

574,774

36

WHE2

63

24

2,424,845

813,851

660,620

49

ZET1

688

48

3,805,815

635,410

1,543,644

42

ZET2

845

58

3,252,451

725,566

1,118,475

32

  1. aTotal no. of reads uploaded in mBRAVE.
  2. bMatched BINs, mostly arthropods.
  3. cArthropods and non-arthropods, the later including vertebrates, invertebrates and plants.