Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, challenges and prospects

KC Beng, RT Corlett - Biodiversity and conservation, 2020 - Springer
Conserving biodiversity in the face of ever-increasing human pressure is hampered by our
lack of basic information on species occurrence, distribution, abundance, habitat …

Fishing for fish environmental DNA: Ecological applications, methodological considerations, surveying designs, and ways forward

M Yao, S Zhang, Q Lu, X Chen, SY Zhang… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vast global declines of freshwater and marine fish diversity and population abundance pose
serious threats to both ecosystem sustainability and human livelihoods. Environmental DNA …

Release and degradation of environmental DNA and RNA in a marine system

SA Wood, L Biessy, JL Latchford, A Zaiko… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, there has been growing interest in the analysis of environmental DNA
(eDNA) to infer the presence of organisms in aquatic environments. The efficacy of …

[HTML][HTML] eDNAir: proof of concept that animal DNA can be collected from air sampling

EL Clare, CK Economou, CG Faulkes, JD Gilbert… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is one of the fastest developing tools for species biomonitoring
and ecological research. However, despite substantial interest from research, commercial …

Environmental DNA provides quantitative estimates of Pacific hake abundance and distribution in the open ocean

AO Shelton, A Ramón-Laca, A Wells… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
All species inevitably leave genetic traces in their environments, and the resulting
environmental DNA (eDNA) reflects the species present in a given habitat. It remains …

GAPeDNA: Assessing and mapping global species gaps in genetic databases for eDNA metabarcoding

V Marques, T Milhau, C Albouy, T Dejean… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Environmental DNA metabarcoding has recently emerged as a non‐invasive tool for
aquatic biodiversity inventories, frequently surpassing traditional methods for detecting a …

Environmental DNA/RNA for pathogen and parasite detection, surveillance, and ecology

D Bass, KW Christison, GD Stentiford, LSJ Cook… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Detection of pathogens, parasites, and other symbionts in environmental samples via
eDNA/eRNA (collectively eNA) is an increasingly important source of information about their …

Meta‐analyses of environmental DNA downstream transport and deposition in relation to hydrogeography in riverine environments

T Jo, H Yamanaka - Freshwater Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is a promising tool to monitor species distribution and
abundance in aquatic ecosystems. These estimates can be biased in lotic environments by …

Sampling and modelling rare species: Conceptual guidelines for the neglected majority

A Jeliazkov, Y Gavish, CJ Marsh… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity conservation faces a methodological conundrum: Biodiversity measurement
often relies on species, most of which are rare at various scales, especially prone to …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect subterranean and aquatic invasive species: a critical review on the challenges and limitations of eDNA …

ST Rishan, RJ Kline, MS Rahman - Environmental Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
The world is struggling to solve a devastating biodiversity loss that not only affects the
extinction of treasured species and irreplaceable genetic variation, but also jeopardizes the …