Within Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE), under the Metabarcoding for Biomonitoring Task 6.2, we have developed a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the metabarcoding of bulk arthropod samples, covering the laboratory workflows that follow terrestrial field sampling for the High Mountain Systems and Pollinator Communities case studies. This SOP was developed using the FAVIS: Fast and Versatile Protocol for Metabarcoding of Bulk Insect Samples (https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.kqdg36261g25/v2), ...

Within the Biodiversity Genomics Europe project, the "High Mountain Systems - Arthropods" case study was designed to evaluate how arthropod communities change along altitudinal gradients in seven selected mountain systems across different countries in Europe, establishing baseline sampling in mountain ranges to track biodiversity shifts associated with climate change. This SOP describes the sampling design and fieldwork methodology for retrieving arthropod bulk samples for metabarcoding analyses. ...