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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">102</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">ARPHA Preprints</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">preprints</abbrev-journal-title>
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        <publisher-name>Pensoft Publishers</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/arphapreprints.e101101</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">101101</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="biological_taxon">
          <subject>Nemata</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>DNA barcoding</subject>
          <subject>Molecular ecology</subject>
          <subject>Soil science</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="geographical_area">
          <subject>Sweden</subject>
        </subj-group>
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        <article-title>Assessing the diversity and spatial distribution of nematodes in the Store Mosse National Park (Sweden) using metabarcoding</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ahmed</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammed</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Slos</surname>
            <given-names>Dieter</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Holovachov</surname>
            <given-names>Oleksandr</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">oleksandr.holovachov@nrm.se</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4285-0754</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
        </contrib>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden</addr-line>
        <institution>Swedish Museum of Natural History</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Stockholm</addr-line>
        <country>Sweden</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Merelbeke, Belgium</addr-line>
        <institution>Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Merelbeke</addr-line>
        <country>Belgium</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim"> Swedish Museum of Natural History,  Stockholm, Sweden</addr-line>
        <institution> Swedish Museum of Natural History</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Stockholm</addr-line>
        <country>Sweden</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Oleksandr Holovachov (<email xlink:type="simple">oleksandr.holovachov@nrm.se</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/77753846-93B6-5FC4-8A62-DB41E4234BAE">77753846-93B6-5FC4-8A62-DB41E4234BAE</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>27</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>27</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Mohammed Ahmed, Dieter Slos, Oleksandr Holovachov</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Nematode taxa of the Store Mosse National Park in the south of Sweden were surveyed using DNA metabarcoding. Samples were collected from a range of media across all the five vegetation types the park spans. A total of 50 samples consisting of soil, litter, lichens, sphagnum, roots, wood, moss, fungus and anthill materials were analysed. Nematodes were characterised using a ~350 bp region of their 18S ribosomal RNA gene that include V7 and V8 variable domains. The analysis identified 47 families, 76 genera (21 new to Swedish fauna) and 60 species (31 new to Swedish fauna). Some nematodes showed a strong association with certain medium types, especially at the species level. The results showed a strong justification for our strategy of sampling different medium types. Soil and litter communities, which were the most diverse, showed high levels of stability with good balance of all the various trophic and coloniser-persister groups.</p>
      </abstract>
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