Die Umweltprobenbank – eine Schatzkammer für die Biodiversitätsforschung
摘要
The German Environmental Specimen Bank is a pollution monitoring program for the systematic collection and archiving of environmental samples from sites across Germany since the 1980s. The storage at temperatures below −130 °C preserves the sample’s initial state and the integrity of all molecules for the long term. The TrendDNA project uses cutting-edge molecular methods that allow using these archived samples for pressing research questions about biodiversity under global change.