A5011862849- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Natural England
2023
Abstract Extinctions occur naturally in all environments, but rates have accelerated rapidly during the Anthropocene, especially fresh water. Despite supporting many fish species of conservation importance, there has never been a formal assessment their extinction risks Britain, which impeded inclusion relevant legislation and policy. This study therefore used International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN) Red List Threatened Species™ Categories Criteria to conduct first systematic...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is transforming biodiversity monitoring in aquatic environments. Such an approach has been developed and deployed for lake fish communities Great Britain, where the method repeatedly shown a comparable or better performance than conventional approaches. Previous analyses indicated that 20 water samples per are sufficient to reliably estimate species richness, but it unclear how reduced eDNA sampling effort affects other estimates metrics. As number of...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is transforming biodiversity monitoring in aquatic environments where the method has repeatedly shown comparable or better performance than conventional approaches to fish monitoring. This been developed and deployed, primarily using shoreline sampling during winter months, across 101 lakes Great Britain alone, covering a wide spectrum of lake types ecological quality. Previous analyses on subset these indicated that 20 water samples per are sufficient...