Publications
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