Distribution of Culex pipiens life stages across urban green and grey spaces in Leiden, The Netherlands

L Krol, M Langezaal, L Budidarma, D Wassenaar… - Parasites & …, 2024 - Springer
Background There is an urgent need for cities to become more climate resilient; one of the
key strategies is to include more green spaces in the urban environment. Currently, there is …

Effects of eutrophication on the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in microalgal-bacterial symbiotic systems

Z You, C Wang, X Yang, Z Liu, Y Guan, J Mu… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Overloading of nutrients such as nitrogen causes eutrophication of freshwater bodies. The
spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) poses a threat to ecosystems. However …

Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod communities in cattle dung

EE Thomassen, EE Sigsgaard… - Journal of Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial invertebrates are highly important for the decomposition of dung from large
mammals. Mammal dung has been present in many of Earth's ecosystems for millions of …

Quantifying the effect of water quality on eDNA degradation using microcosm and bioassay experiments

EGW McKnight, ABA Shafer, PC Frost - Environmental DNA, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is often used to determine the presence and absence of
species in a specific environment, be it air, water, or soil. Numerous environmental …

Size‐dependent release and temperature‐dependent degradation of salmonid environmental DNA under laboratory conditions

S Yamamoto - Journal of Fish Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The degradation of environmental DNA (eDNA) and its release from fish were investigated
in laboratory experiments for seven salmonid fishes. The eDNA concentration in …

Short Term Environmental DNA Variation Using Active and Passive Sampling Techniques in Two Aquatic Ecosystems

CE Oathout - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a novel sampling technique for evaluating the presence of
particular species. Due to the infancy of the technique, how best to collect samples for eDNA …