[HTML][HTML] Key factors to consider in the use of environmental DNA metabarcoding to monitor terrestrial ecological restoration

M van der Heyde, M Bunce, P Nevill - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecological restoration of terrestrial environments is a globally important process to combat
the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Holistic monitoring of restored biota and …

Genetic and genomic monitoring with minimally invasive sampling methods

EL Carroll, MW Bruford, JA DeWoody… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The decreasing cost and increasing scope and power of emerging genomic technologies
are reshaping the field of molecular ecology. However, many modern genomic approaches …

eDNA metabarcoding for biodiversity assessment, generalist predators as sampling assistants

L Nørgaard, CR Olesen, K Trøjelsgaard, C Pertoldi… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
With an accelerating negative impact of anthropogenic actions on natural ecosystems, non-
invasive biodiversity assessments are becoming increasingly crucial. As a consequence, the …

Rewilded horses in European nature conservation–a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective

L Lovász, C Sommer‐Trembo, JMI Barth… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, the integration of horses (Equus ferus) in European rewilding initiatives
has gained widespread popularity due to their potential for regulating vegetation and …

Phylogenetics and phylogeography of red deer mtDNA lineages during the last 50 000 years in Eurasia

K Doan, M Niedziałkowska, K Stefaniak… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The present phylogeographic pattern of red deer in Eurasia is not only a result of the
contraction of their distribution range into glacial refugia and postglacial expansion, but …

Trophic rewilding: ecological restoration of top-down trophic interactions to promote self-regulating biodiverse ecosystems

JC Svenning, M Munk, A Schweiger - Rewilding, 2019 - books.google.com
There is rapidly increasing interest in rewilding as an alternative to conventional, more
human-controlled approaches to biological conservation and nature management (Donlan …

Target‐oriented habitat and wildlife management: estimating forage quantity and quality of semi‐natural grasslands with Sentinel‐1 and Sentinel‐2 data

C Raab, F Riesch, B Tonn, B Barrett… - Remote Sensing in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Semi‐natural grasslands represent ecosystems with high biodiversity. Their conservation
depends on the removal of biomass, for example, through grazing by livestock or wildlife …

Grazing by wild red deer maintains characteristic vegetation of semi‐natural open habitats: Evidence from a three‐year exclusion experiment

F Riesch, B Tonn, HG Stroh, M Meißner… - Applied Vegetation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Questions Conservation management of semi‐natural open habitats today has to
compensate for the decline of traditional practices of agricultural land use. Can wild and free …

Varied diets, including broadleaved forage, are important for a large herbivore species inhabiting highly modified landscapes

AM Felton, E Holmström, J Malmsten, A Felton… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Diet quality is an important determinant of animal survival and reproduction, and can be
described as the combination of different food items ingested, and their nutritional …

Ecological specialization and niche overlap of subterranean rodents inferred from DNA metabarcoding diet analysis

CM Lopes, M De Barba, F Boyer, C Mercier… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of how animal species use food resources available in the environment
can increase our understanding of many ecological processes. However, obtaining this …