Mean OTU richness for kick-net samples (top left panel) and Malaise trap samples (top right panel). Mean sum of all reads across all 7 replicates for one sample for the kick-net samples (bottom left panel) and the Malaise trap samples (bottom right panel). The sample number also indicated the rounds of cleaning after each sample. Error bars indicate the 95% confidence interval ranging from percentile 2.5 to 97.5.

 
 
  Part of: Buchner D, Haase P, Leese F (2021) Wet grinding of invertebrate bulk samples – a scalable and cost-efficient protocol for metabarcoding and metagenomics. Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 5: e67533. https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.5.67533