A5072223597- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and fisheries research
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
Curtin University
2019-2023
Abstract The need for efficient and more accurate ways of monitoring threatened ecosystems is becoming increasingly urgent as climate change intensifies. Coral reefs are an example ecosystem in crisis, with widespread declines coral cover diversity documented over recent decades. Novel molecular approaches such biomonitoring using environmental DNA (eDNA) from seawater samples show great potential to complement future reef programs, especially when used combination conventional methods....
Broad scale monitoring of marine diversity is challenging, with many techniques limited to sampling only a small portion the actual present. For this reason, molecular methods, such as environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding, are becoming increasingly popular, especially in locations that logistically difficult sample (for example, ports, offshore platforms and other restricted infrastructure). eDNA studies environment have predominantly focused on collection isolation from water. Recent...
Offshore oil and gas platforms have the potential to provide complex refugia for fish benthic colonisers. We compare two methods of biodiversity assessment elasmobranchs at seven decommissioned as well five sediment sites, located 5 km from platforms, in Gulf Thailand. Using surveys stereo-video ROV transects, data Environmental DNA (eDNA) water-column samples, we detected elasmobranch taxa 39 families 66 genera across both platform sites with eDNA, compared 18 29 by stereo-ROV yielding...
Abstract Groundwater is an essential source of freshwater that supports surface ecosystems as well organisms adapted to living underground. The impacts anthropogenic climate change, extraction, and pollution pose major threats groundwater ecosystem health, prompting a need for efficient reliable means detect monitor subterranean faunal communities. Conventional survey fauna relies on the collection morphological identification, which can be biased, labor intensive, often indeterminate at...
Barrow Island, situated off the north-west Australian coast, is well recognised for its subterranean fauna values.Sampling both stygobitic and troglobitic has taken place on island since 1991, Humphreys (2001) summarised then current state of knowledge island's fauna.Sampling impact assessment purposes over past decade substantially increased recorded species richness Island.The number documented stygal taxa more than doubled 2001, from 25 to 63 now known.Troglobitic diversity also...
Artificial reefs are being utilised globally to aid in natural resource management, conservation, restoration or the creation of unique marine habitats. There is discussion around optimal construction materials and designs for artificial reefs, influences these have on biological communities, resulting ecological social benefits. This also includes value repurposed infrastructure, such as decommissioned oil gas platforms. Platforms often an operational life spanning multiple decades, over...
A new species of the pseudoscorpion genus Anatemnus, A. subvastus, is described from subterranean environments in Pilbara bioregion Western Australia.Like Oratemnus cavernicola New South Wales, it lacks eye spots, and has slightly elongated appendages pallid colouration.It known only a small area less than 20 km 2 .We also attribute to forming combination Anatemnus (Beier, 1976), but note that generic assignment both should be reviewed pending an assessment all genera Atemninae.
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Identification of species for environmental assessment and monitoring is essential understanding anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity, but subterranean fauna this task frequently difficult time consuming. The implementation DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding biodiversity discovery offers considerable promise improving the rate, accuracy efficiency detection in ecosystems both above below ground. Importantly, a better ecology organisms detected using eDNA, custom library known reference sequences with...